Rip Current Statement
NWS Boston/Norton MA ยท US
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Details
High Rip Current Risk In Effect From Tuesday Morning Through Tuesday Evening
- 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 expected.
Where
Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts.
When
From Tuesday morning through Tuesday evening.
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
- Eastern Essex
- Suffolk County, MA
- Eastern Norfolk
- Eastern Plymouth
- Southern Bristol
- Southern Plymouth
- Barnstable County, MA
- Dukes County, MA
- Nantucket County, MA
- Southeast Providence
- Eastern Kent
- Bristol
- Washington County, RI
- Newport County, RI
- Block Island
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Boston/Norton MA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m4s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M32JXA17JVSQ79KX7PTPJ0NH
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.a77a896ae1cb9af3a3e61571e7f2681b58cb3198.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Boston/Norton MA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPBOX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.468
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWBOX |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS41 KBOX 211815 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0015.260922T1000Z-260923T0000Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Eastern Essex
- Suffolk County, MA
- Eastern Norfolk
- Eastern Plymouth
- Southern Bristol
- Southern Plymouth
- Barnstable County, MA
- Dukes County, MA
- Nantucket County, MA
- Southeast Providence
- Eastern Kent
- Bristol
- Washington County, RI
- Newport County, RI
- Block Island
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 025009 |
| SAME | 025021 |
| SAME | 025025 |
| SAME | 025023 |
| SAME | 025005 |
| SAME | 025001 |
| SAME | 025007 |
| SAME | 025019 |
| SAME | 044007 |
| SAME | 044003 |
| SAME | 044001 |
| SAME | 044009 |
| SAME | 044005 |
| UGC | MAZ007 |
| UGC | MAZ015 |
| UGC | MAZ016 |
| UGC | MAZ019 |
| UGC | MAZ020 |
| UGC | MAZ021 |
| UGC | MAZ022 |
| UGC | MAZ023 |
| UGC | MAZ024 |
| UGC | RIZ002 |
| UGC | RIZ004 |
| UGC | RIZ005 |
| UGC | RIZ006 |
| UGC | RIZ007 |
| UGC | RIZ008 |