Rip Current Statement
NWS Upton NY ยท US
Updated
Details
High Rip Current Risk Now In Effect Through Wednesday 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.
Where
Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast Suffolk and Southern Queens Counties.
When
Through Wednesday evening.
Impacts
Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
Additional details
The high rip current risk is expected to persist through late week.
Instructions
If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help.
Affected areas
- Kings (Brooklyn)
- Southwest Suffolk
- Southeast Suffolk
- Southern Queens
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Upton NY
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~59s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M358Z1MT58XQP1DSEE2S65CX
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.9de928d4be1fbf3ab7f015c7afe79bac4d781b9f.002.2
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Upton NY
- AWIPS ID
- CAPOKX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2261
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
References
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWOKX |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS41 KOKX 221919 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.EXT.KOKX.RP.S.0020.260922T1919Z-260924T0000Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Kings (Brooklyn)
- Southwest Suffolk
- Southeast Suffolk
- Southern Queens
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 036047 |
| SAME | 036103 |
| SAME | 036081 |
| UGC | NYZ075 |
| UGC | NYZ080 |
| UGC | NYZ081 |
| UGC | NYZ178 |