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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 18, 2025, 8:24 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2025, 8:24 AM CDT (13:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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 13:28 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 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
- 509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
210 WHUS44 KHGX 181324 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 824 AM CDT Fri Apr 18 2025 TXZ436>439-210100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0005.250418T1324Z-250421T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 824 AM CDT Fri Apr 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
171 WHUS44 KHGX 190842 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 342 AM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025 TXZ436>439-191645- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250421T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 342 AM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
099 WHUS44 KHGX 191456 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 956 AM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025 TXZ436>439-210100- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250421T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 956 AM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
356 WHUS44 KHGX 200829 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 329 AM CDT Sun Apr 20 2025 TXZ436>439-201630- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250421T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 329 AM CDT Sun Apr 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
090 WHUS44 KHGX 201441 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 941 AM CDT Sun Apr 20 2025 TXZ436>439-202245- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250421T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 941 AM CDT Sun Apr 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 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 8 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. && $$
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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.