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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 8, 2025, 12:56 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It took effect at Jun 8, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2025, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 8, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 05:58 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, 5.9 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
617 WHUS44 KHGX 080556 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1256 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 TXZ436>439-090300- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0012.250608T1200Z-250609T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1256 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...From 7 AM CDT this morning through 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
414 WHUS44 KHGX 081045 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 545 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 TXZ436>439-081845- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0012.250608T1200Z-250609T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 545 AM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...From 7 AM CDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
980 WHUS44 KHGX 081802 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 102 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 TXZ436>439-090215- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-250610T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 102 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
358 WHUS44 KHGX 091451 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 951 AM CDT Mon Jun 9 2025 TXZ436>439-092300- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-250610T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 951 AM CDT Mon Jun 9 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.