Rip Current Statement
NWS Jacksonville FL ยท US
Updated
This event was updated at .
Details
High Rip Current Risk Remains In Effect Through Late Thursday Night
- Event
- Rip Current Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Dangerous rip currents.
Where
Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida Beaches.
When
Through late Thursday night.
Impacts
Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
Instructions
Swim near a lifeguard. 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.
Affected areas
- Coastal Nassau
- Coastal Duval
- Coastal Flagler
- Northeast Coastal St. Johns
- Southeast Coastal St. Johns
- Coastal Glynn
- Coastal Camden
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Jacksonville FL
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~58s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2K40AWBE8SHMEMHX3D6QHGQ
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.647f939c9ab36f72de057c807850c824af74ae5c.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Jacksonville FL
- AWIPS ID
- CAPJAX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.87
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
References
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.8eb4038ce72b3b710691a78468ae08e8faf40199.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7ee7911b6f1e0ef983557a9bbed7078e65e5cb11.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWJAX |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS42 KJAX 151806 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.CON.KJAX.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-260918T0900Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T05:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7ee7911b6f1e0ef983557a9bbed7078e65e5cb11.001.1,2026-09-14T14:25:00-04:00 |
Locations
Location data
- Coastal Nassau
- Coastal Duval
- Coastal Flagler
- Northeast Coastal St. Johns
- Southeast Coastal St. Johns
- Coastal Glynn
- Coastal Camden
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 012089 |
| SAME | 012031 |
| SAME | 012035 |
| SAME | 012109 |
| SAME | 013127 |
| SAME | 013039 |
| UGC | FLZ124 |
| UGC | FLZ125 |
| UGC | FLZ138 |
| UGC | FLZ233 |
| UGC | FLZ333 |
| UGC | GAZ154 |
| UGC | GAZ166 |