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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 24, 2024, 10:19 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2024, 10:19 AM CDT (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 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
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
277 WHUS44 KHGX 241519 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1019 AM CDT Sun Mar 24 2024 TXZ436>439-250100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0009.240324T1519Z-240326T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1019 AM CDT Sun Mar 24 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
597 WHUS44 KHGX 242000 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 300 PM CDT Sun Mar 24 2024 TXZ436>439-250400- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-240326T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 300 PM CDT Sun Mar 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
331 WHUS44 KHGX 251727 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1227 PM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 TXZ436>439-260000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-240326T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1227 PM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this 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. && $$
392 WHUS44 KHGX 251951 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 251 PM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 TXZ436>439-260000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-240326T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 251 PM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.