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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 2, 2024, 10:13 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 53 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2024, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2024, 2:48 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -5.0
The text
As transmitted.
547 WHUS44 KHGX 030313 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1013 PM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024 TXZ436>439-031115- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0021.240603T0313Z-240604T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1013 PM CDT Sun Jun 2 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
6 follow-up statements
780 WHUS44 KHGX 032039 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 339 PM CDT Mon Jun 3 2024 TXZ436>439-041500- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240604T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 339 PM CDT Mon Jun 3 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
394 WHUS44 KHGX 040706 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 206 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 TXZ436>439-041515- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240605T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 206 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
860 WHUS44 KHGX 041519 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1019 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 TXZ436>439-050100- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240605T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1019 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
596 WHUS44 KHGX 041937 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 237 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 TXZ436>439-051100- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240605T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 237 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
857 WHUS44 KHGX 050312 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1012 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 TXZ436>439-051115- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240605T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1012 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
794 WHUS44 KHGX 050748 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 248 AM CDT Wed Jun 5 2024 TXZ436>439-051600- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-240605T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KHGX.BH.S.0004.240605T0748Z-240606T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 248 AM CDT Wed Jun 5 2024 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents and minor coastal flooding during times of high tide. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Difficult to dangerous swimming conditions. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Minor coastal flooding will be possible during high tide later this morning along Gulf-facing beaches. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If at the beach, swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties and piers. In addition, don't swim at the eastern or western tips of Galveston Island. Tidal currents and rip currents are always dangerous there. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.