A 13 year old girl drowned at a beach near Surfside Texas. The drowning was believed to be related to rip currents.
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A 13 year old girl drowned at a beach near Surfside Texas. The drowning was believed to be related to rip currents.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 5:31 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 631 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 .AVIATION... ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE DISSIPATING AS WE LOSE DAYTIME HEATING. DO NOT EXPECT ANY OF THE TAF SITES TO BE IMPACTED THIS EVENING. COULD HAVE REPEAT AGAIN ON SATURDAY BUT DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SHOWERS I WILL NOT MENTION THEM IN THE TAF FCST. CONDITIONS WILL BE MOSTLY VFR WITH SOME SCATTERED CLOUDS AROUND 020 IN THE MID TO LATE MORNING. WINDS WILL BE FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST GENERALLY LESS THAN 10 KNOTS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 345 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011/ DISCUSSION... VARIOUS COMMUNITIES OVER THE SECOND AND THIRD TIER INLAND COUNTIES HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET ANYWHERE FROM A FEW HUNDREDTHS ..TO AS MUCH AS...A HALF AN INCH FROM SEA BREEZE-INDUCED SHOWERS... WITH AN ISOLATED STORM NEAR HOBBY'S AIR SPACE AT 18Z. IN RELATION TO PRECIPITATION COVERAGE THIS HAS...AND WILL BE...THE AFTERNOON TREND IN THE COMING DAYS. THE WRF HAS DONE A DECENT JOB ON CONVECTIVE TIMING ONSET AND LOCATION...WITH SATURDAY'S CONVECTIVE INITIATION ALONG THE BREEZE BEING A BIT DELAYED UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON. GENERAL MODEL CONSENSUS HAS THE CENTER/AXIS OF 5H RIDGING TO SHIFT WESTWARD...FROM ITS CURRENT POSITIONING OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...TO OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. THIS WILL PLACE EASTERN TEXAS UNDER MORE EASTERLY FLOW THROUGHOUT COLUMN AND...QUITE POSSIBLY...OPEN THE DOOR FOR ANY EASTERN-IN-ORIGIN VORT MAX/SHORTWAVE(S) TO RIDE ON IN. THE GFS IS THE ONLY MODEL THAT HAS AN AGGRESSIVE VORT MAX AFFECTING THE AREA MONDAY...WHILE THE NAM/ECMWF ARE MORE SUBTLE WITH INTRODUCING WEAKER LOBES OF PVA. THE SLIGHTLY HIGHER CHANCE OF AN EARLY WEEK PATTERN OF ENERGY SLIDING IN UNDER THE SOUTHEASTERN PERIPHERY OF THE DOMINANT NW-POSITIONED RIDGE...WHEN SUPERIMPOSED ONTO THE MESOSCALE BREEZE...HAS DAILY POPS AT LEAST AT 20%. GRANTED 30...TO EVEN NEAR 40 POPS...COULD BE WARRANTED SUNDAY AND THE FOURTH...THE GLARING LACK OF ANY FOCUS WHILE CHASING WEAK BOUTS OF EASTERN ENERGY (OR OUTFLOW FROM SUCH)...WILL SKEW THE RAIN PROBS TOWARDS THE CONSERVATIVE WATCH-AND-WAIT PHILOSOPHY. ABOVE NORMAL AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WITH NEAR NORMAL MORNING READINGS THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. UNDER EASTERLY FLOW...OVERALL MOISTURE VALUES WILL REMAIN STEADY...OR SLIGHTLY INCREASE SUNDAY...TO ONLY DECLINE AGAIN OVER THE FOURTH OF JULY. THIS MEANS THAT EARLY DAY (INTERIOR) DEW POINTS IN THE LOW TO MIDDLE 70S WILL MIX OUT TO AS LOW AS THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S BY MID AFTERNOON. THIS WILL LOWER RHS DOWN INTO THE 25-35% RANGE...WHILE LESS CLOUD COVER WILL HAVE AFTERNOONS IN THE AVERAGE UPPER 90S. HOLIDAY SUMMARY IS NO SURPRISE: VERY HOT AND MAINLY DRY...WITH THE SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A PASSING SHOWER AND/OR STORM. 31 MARINE... THE PRESSURE GRADIENT SHOULD BE TRENDING WEAKER AND WINDS WILL BE LIGHTER THIS WEEKEND. SWELLS FROM ARLENE WILL CONTINUE TO DAMPEN OUT AND AM EXPECTING SEAS TO SUBSIDE TO AROUND 3 FEET OR LESS BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. TIDE LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN NEAR NORMAL. FIRE WEATHER... DEW POINTS WILL MIX OUT EACH AFTERNOON WITH MIN RH VALUES FALLING BELOW 40 PERCENT. WINDS WILL REMAIN LIGHT GENERALLY 10-15 MPH NEAR THE COAST AND AROUND 10 MPH INLAND. ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND BUT WIDESPREAD RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED. 43 CLIMATE... A MONTHLY NARRATIVE CLIMATE SUMMARY WAS ISSUED EARLIER TODAY. HOUSTON HAD 7 100 DEGREE DAYS IN THE MONTH WHICH TIES FOR THIRD ALL TIME. IT WAS THE WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD FOR HOUSTON AND GALVESTON. 43 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... COLLEGE STATION (CLL) 76 100 74 101 75 / 20 20 20 20 20 HOUSTON (IAH) 76 100 73 98 76 / 20 20 20 20 20 GALVESTON (GLS) 80 92 79 91 80 / 20 20 20 20 20 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && DISCUSSION...45 AVIATION/MARINE...34
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 421 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-021200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 421 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR ONE OR TWO STRONG STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. THE COMBINATION OF VERY DRY FUELS...HOT TEMPERATURES...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 28 TO 35 PERCENT...AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS EACH DAY. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR ONE OR TWO STRONG STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. THE COMBINATION OF VERY DRY FUELS...HOT TEMPERATURES...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 28 TO 35 PERCENT...AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Thirteen year old girl and a friend were caught in a rip current. The friend was rescued but the 13 year old drowned.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Brazoria | 2011-07-01 | 13 | Female | In Water | Direct |
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