There was a rip current fatality off the Galveston Island beach.
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There was a rip current fatality off the Galveston Island beach.
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 May 31, 2:59 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 359 PM CDT Wed May 31 2017 .SHORT TERM... Surface analysis this afternoon shows sea breeze boundary slowly pushing north with a few isolated showers and storms forming along it. More organized multicellular convection had developed NW of Columbus but this convection is still pulse convection with new updrafts forming from outflow boundaries of decaying storms. Water vapor imagery shows a jet streak approaching from the southwest over south Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. The expectation is for convection to wave this evening especially along the sea breeze. Short range guidance does show the convection south of San Antonio and along I-10 could then move NE towards the Brazos Valley from 03 to 06Z this evening. This activity may be decreasing with coverage and intensity but there may still be enough lingering instability to keep storms going until 09Z. Shower activity should then increase along the coast Thursday morning with an increase in moisture. Precipitable water values jump up to 1.8 to 1.9 inches and should support more scattered shower and thunderstorm activity on Thursday. The main threat will be brief heavy rainfall with most likely pulse/multicellular convection. It was dually noted that the ECMWF had developed quite a bit of QPF over the area for tomorrow but lean towards this being more convective feedback than actual heavy rainfall signal in the data. Overpeck && .LONG TERM... Friday through early next week the upper level pattern maintains weak westerly flow which then amplifies Monday. A deep upper low and trough develops over the Great Lakes with a ridge through the plains. A short wave trough drops into Texas late Monday. The mean long wave trough over the eastern U.S. remains through mid week which allows for a front to push into SE Texas from the northeast. This backdoor front (A front in early June? Yes please!) pushes through next Tuesday night into Wednesday and will allow for drier air to push into the region. Low temperatures could possibly be back down into the 60s for next Wednesday and Thursday. The drier air will heat up so possible to have high temperatures still in the upper 80s to even low 90s. As far as rain chances are concerned...deep Gulf moisture will remain over much of the region so expect at least some rain chances each day with pulse/multicellular convection. There really is not any one day that looks to have higher rain chances than the other. The short wave trough pushing through Sunday/Monday may allow for higher chances since there will be more large scale ascent. Precipitable water values will linger around 1.8 to 2.0 inches so it will not take much lift for storms to develop. Again it looks like brief heavy rainfall and lightning for hazardous weather as freezing levels will still be high and difficult for hail to form unless storms can realize more than 3000 J/kg which the lapse rates really do not support. Overpeck && .MARINE... The broad/weak coastal trough along the coast appears to have filled in/dissipated this afternoon. Light onshore winds have returned over the coastal waters along with isolated showers and thunderstorms. No major changes planned with the marine forecast with the next package as models remain in fairly good agreement the next few days. Onshore winds will be strengthening tonight through Friday as the next storm system moves into the Southern Plains and deepens, but should remain below SCEC/SCA criteria (for the most part). Winds are then expected to weaken over the weekend as the pressure gradient relaxes...but re- maining out of the SSE. Extended models bringing the next (backdoor) cold front into the coastal waters late Tues. 41 && .TROPICAL... June 1 starts the Atlantic hurricane season with the hurricane preparedness workshop in Houston on Saturday. But to kick off the season I'm sure everyone is wondering what the models are doing in the Gulf for the weekend. Quite simply what we know is that there will be a surge of moisture. Upper level winds will be westerly so if anything develops it will be experience quite a bit of shear. This will make any tropical development difficult. GFS/NAM/ECMWF all show pressures around 1006-1008mb in the Gulf but given the upper level winds the best that could develop would likely be an asymmetric tropical mess. For now best course of action will be to continue monitor but realize these are just the models forecasting a system which is not even close to developing. Like every year, forecast models will try to spin up "model canes". This is no different and caution advised in trusting any one model. Overpeck && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... College Station (CLL) 70 86 70 88 71 / 40 50 30 20 20 Houston (IAH) 73 86 72 87 73 / 30 50 20 40 10 Galveston (GLS) 77 84 78 86 78 / 30 50 20 30 20 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && Discussion...39 Aviation/Marine...41
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 414 AM CDT Wed May 31 2017 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-010915- 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- 414 AM CDT Wed May 31 2017 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Southeast Texas.. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected today. Stronger activity may be capable of brief heavy downpours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday Scattered to occasionally numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected each day. Stronger activity may be capable of brief heavy downpours. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-010915- Coastal waters from Freeport to the Matagorda Ship Channel out 20 NM-Coastal waters from High Island to Freeport out 20 NM- Galveston Bay-Matagorda Bay- Waters from Freeport to the Matagorda Ship Channel from 20 to 60 NM-Waters from High Island to Freeport from 20 to 60 NM- 414 AM CDT Wed May 31 2017 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Southeast Texas.. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 20 year old male drowned near 63rd Street and Seawall Blvd.
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 | 2017-05-31 | 20 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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