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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 18, 2025, 1:24 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2025, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2025, 11:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 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 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 404 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
- 560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
097 WHUS44 KHGX 181824 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 124 PM CDT Wed Jun 18 2025 TXZ436>439-190230- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0014.250618T1824Z-250620T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 124 PM CDT Wed Jun 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
368 WHUS44 KHGX 190519 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1219 AM CDT Thu Jun 19 2025 TXZ436>439-200000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-250620T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1219 AM CDT Thu Jun 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
107 WHUS44 KHGX 191658 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1158 AM CDT Thu Jun 19 2025 TXZ436>439-191800- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-250620T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1158 AM CDT Thu Jun 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Yellow flags are flying at area beaches, so the rip current statement is being ended. Persistent onshore winds will keep up some risk of rip currents, so inexperienced swimmers should still use caution in the waters, and nobody should be swimming in marked "no swimming" zones, or near locations prone to rip currents such as piers and jetties. $$
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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.