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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 26, 2024, 8:48 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2024, 8:48 AM CST (14:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 49 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 14:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 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
- 1797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
604 WHUS44 KHGX 261448 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 848 AM CST Mon Feb 26 2024 TXZ436>439-262300- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0005.240226T1448Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 848 AM CST Mon Feb 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A high rip current risk is expected to remain in place until a cold front arrives Wednesday morning. 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
892 WHUS44 KHGX 262029 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 229 PM CST Mon Feb 26 2024 TXZ436>439-270430- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 229 PM CST Mon Feb 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A high rip current risk is expected to remain in place until a cold front arrives Wednesday morning. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
613 WHUS44 KHGX 270307 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 907 PM CST Mon Feb 26 2024 TXZ436>439-271115- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 907 PM CST Mon Feb 26 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. && $$
267 WHUS44 KHGX 270815 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 215 AM CST Tue Feb 27 2024 TXZ436>439-271900- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 215 AM CST Tue Feb 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
235 WHUS44 KHGX 280341 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 941 PM CST Tue Feb 27 2024 TXZ436>439-281145- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 941 PM CST Tue Feb 27 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. && $$
641 WHUS44 KHGX 281347 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 747 AM CST Wed Feb 28 2024 TXZ436>439-281600- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240228T1600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 747 AM CST Wed Feb 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.