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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 15, 2025, 4:06 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2025, 4:06 PM CDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 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 21:08 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, 9.1 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
185 WHUS44 KHGX 152106 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 406 PM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025 TXZ436>439-160200- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0002.250315T2106Z-250316T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 406 PM CDT Sat Mar 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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...Until 9 PM CDT 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 20 min |
| Mar 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | 14 hr | |
| Mar 14, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 19 min |
| Mar 15, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 26 min |
| Mar 15, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 3:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Burleson | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Washington | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison, Walker | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison, Walker | 21 min |
| Mar 15, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison | 16 min |
| Mar 15, 4:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Houston | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 9:45 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 11 hr | |
| Mar 15, 12:37 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 14 more | 7 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.