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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Aug 15, 2025, 11:51 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
- Aug 15, 2025, 11:51 AM CDT (16:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2025, 9:00 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 16:53 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, 4.9 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
- 1462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
838 WHUS44 KHGX 151651 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1151 AM CDT Fri Aug 15 2025 TXZ436>439-160100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0017.250815T1651Z-250817T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1151 AM CDT Fri Aug 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
874 WHUS44 KHGX 161706 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1206 PM CDT Sat Aug 16 2025 TXZ436>439-170115- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-250817T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1206 PM CDT Sat Aug 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 11:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 11:50 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 10 hr | |
| Aug 15, 12:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 1:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 32 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.