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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 13, 2025, 10:11 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2025, 10:11 AM CDT (15:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 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 15:13 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, 3.2 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
- 3194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
092 WHUS44 KHGX 131511 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1011 AM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025 TXZ436>439-132315- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0013.250613T1511Z-250614T0900Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1011 AM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025 ...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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Enhance swell will result in a higher rip current risk today and tonight. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
676 WHUS44 KHGX 132034 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 334 PM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025 TXZ436>439-140900- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250614T0900Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 334 PM CDT Fri Jun 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Long period swell will result in a higher rip current risk today and tonight. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 10 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 5 days |
| Jun 13, 9:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 59 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Trinity | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 3:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | San Jacinto, Walker | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Montgomery, Walker | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 92 min |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 117 min |
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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.