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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 17, 2025, 6:37 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2025, 6:37 AM CDT (11:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 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 11:40 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, 11.6 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
- 2892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
515 WHUS44 KHGX 171137 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 637 AM CDT Mon Mar 17 2025 TXZ436>439-172300- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0003.250317T1137Z-250319T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 637 AM CDT Mon Mar 17 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
431 WHUS44 KHGX 180959 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 459 AM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 TXZ436>439-182300- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250319T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 459 AM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
486 WHUS44 KHGX 190242 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 942 PM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 TXZ436>439-191045- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250319T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 942 PM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
477 WHUS44 KHGX 190753 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 253 AM CDT Wed Mar 19 2025 TXZ436>439-191200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250319T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 253 AM CDT Wed Mar 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:42 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 46 hr | |
| Mar 17, 3:13 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 31 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.