There was a rip current fatality on the Bolivar Peninsula.
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There was a rip current fatality on the Bolivar Peninsula.
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 Jun 12, 12:15 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
115 PM CDT Mon Jun 12 2017
.AVIATION...
Not much change to the ongoing thinking with this 18Z package
following more of an analog approach. Primarily VFR with an
occasional passing early day /afternoon shower or isolated storm.
Brief periods of MVFR deck formation during the overnight hours.
Southerlies should stay up enough to preclude any significant fog
development...just keeping it MVFR stratus in nature. Higher
moisture axis east of the I-45 corridor is forecast to meander
west over the region through early tomorrow. Air mass precipitation...
likely originating from the Gulf and moving onshore through the
day tomorrow...or very similar behavior to recent day's activity.
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.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1050 AM CDT Mon Jun 12 2017/
UPDATE...
Temps are warming rather quickly this morning and 12z soundings
support max temps between 91-93 degrees so bumped temps up a
degree or two in some spots. Satellite derived PW fields show
quite a moisture gradient across SE TX this morning with the
higher moisture confined to areas east of I45. Current forecast
has a good handle on rain chances and will leave the PoP forecast
as is. 43
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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
College Station (CLL) 75 91 75 92 75 / 10 30 10 20 0
Houston (IAH) 78 90 77 90 77 / 30 40 10 20 10
Galveston (GLS) 82 87 82 86 82 / 20 30 10 20 10
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.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
GM...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION from 7 PM CDT this evening
through Tuesday morning for the following zones: Coastal
waters from Freeport to the Matagorda Ship Channel out 20
NM...Coastal waters from High Island to Freeport out 20
NM...Waters from Freeport to the Matagorda Ship Channel
from 20 to 60 NM...Waters from High Island to Freeport from
20 to 60 NM.
&&
Discussion...43
Aviation/Marine...31The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
There was a rip current fatality near 850 Gulf Road on the Bolivar Peninsula.
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, Galveston | 2017-06-12 | 33 | Female | In Water | Direct |
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