Rip Current Statement
NWS Charleston SC ยท US
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Details
High Rip Current Risk In Effect From Thursday Morning Through Thursday 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
Georgia Beaches, Beaufort, and Coastal Jasper.
When
From Thursday morning through Thursday 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
- Coastal Bryan
- Coastal Chatham
- Coastal Liberty
- Coastal McIntosh
- Beaufort County, SC
- Coastal Jasper
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Charleston SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m12s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M37KFFEEQ1HSQ3A9XTRS0QQT
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.d982f036080937a4424f66215b3e390c30219172.002.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Charleston SC
- AWIPS ID
- CAPCHS
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6543
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWCHS |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS42 KCHS 231701 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KCHS.RP.S.0008.260924T1200Z-260925T0000Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Coastal Bryan
- Coastal Chatham
- Coastal Liberty
- Coastal McIntosh
- Beaufort County, SC
- Coastal Jasper
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 013029 |
| SAME | 013051 |
| SAME | 013179 |
| SAME | 013191 |
| SAME | 045013 |
| SAME | 045053 |
| UGC | GAZ217 |
| UGC | GAZ219 |
| UGC | GAZ239 |
| UGC | GAZ241 |
| UGC | SCZ148 |
| UGC | SCZ151 |