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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 28, 2025, 5:25 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 67 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 28, 2025, 5:25 AM CST (11:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 67 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 11:26 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, 11.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
281 WHUS44 KHGX 281125 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 525 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ436>439-281930- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0019.251128T1125Z-251130T1400Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 525 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
735 WHUS44 KHGX 282053 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 253 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ436>439-290500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-251130T1400Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 253 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
017 WHUS44 KHGX 291748 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1148 AM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 TXZ436>439-300200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-251130T1400Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1148 AM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * 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. && $$
620 WHUS44 KHGX 300125 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 725 PM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 TXZ436>439-300930- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-251130T1400Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 725 PM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
829 WHUS44 KHGX 301205 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 605 AM CST Sun Nov 30 2025 TXZ436>439-010600- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-251201T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 605 AM CST Sun Nov 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW 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 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. && $$
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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.