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Rip Current Statement 15, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 29, 2025, 2:19 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2025, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2025, 12:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 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 19:20 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
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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
- 2134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
706 WHUS44 KHGX 291919 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 219 PM CDT Sun Jun 29 2025 TXZ436>439-300330- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0015.250629T1919Z-250701T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 219 PM CDT Sun Jun 29 2025 ...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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
435 WHUS44 KHGX 301040 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 540 AM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025 TXZ436>439-010000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-250701T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 540 AM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
169 WHUS44 KHGX 301729 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1229 PM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025 TXZ436>439-301830- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-250701T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1229 PM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The beach flag has been changed to yellow for today, so the high rip current risk has been cancelled. Continue to be alert and swim close to shore as some rip currents are still present. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:44 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 5 hr |
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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.