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Rip Current Statement 42, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 13, 2024, 3:22 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2024, 3:22 AM CST (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 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 09:25 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, 9.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 737 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
748 WHUS44 KHGX 130922 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 322 AM CST Fri Dec 13 2024 TXZ436>439-140000- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0042.241213T0922Z-241214T0900Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 322 AM CST Fri Dec 13 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
382 WHUS44 KHGX 132136 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 336 PM CST Fri Dec 13 2024 TXZ436>439-141200- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-241214T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 336 PM CST Fri Dec 13 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
600 WHUS44 KHGX 140953 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 353 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 TXZ436>439-150000- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-241215T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 353 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * 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. && $$
496 WHUS44 KHGX 141444 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 844 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 TXZ436>439-142245- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-241215T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 844 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 3:21 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 12 hr | |
| Dec 13, 3:36 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 20 hr |
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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.