Rip Current Statement
NWS San Juan PR ยท US
Details
High Rip Current Risk In Effect Through Monday Afternoon
- Event
- Rip Current Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
High Rip Current Risk, life-threatening rip currents.
Where
North-facing beaches of Puerto Rico, mostly in Aguada and Rincon.
When
Through Monday afternoon.
Impacts
Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water, where it becomes difficult to return to safety.
Additional details
Through Sunday, a north to northeast swell will build seas between 3 and 5 feet across the Atlantic waters. This will increase the risk of life- threatening rip currents across most exposed beaches along the Atlantic coastline of Puerto Rico.
Instructions
There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current, yell for help. Remain calm, do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current, swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly.
Affected areas
- Mayaguez and Vicinity
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS San Juan PR
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~42s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M6W9HHE1XF1J56ATMBKBRQT9
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.301badde3dc8ad569b4f21ce05a3c1c22ac6bc68.001.1
- Sender
- [email protected]
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS San Juan PR
- AWIPS ID
- CAPSJU
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.859
- WMO heading
- XOCA52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- Caribbean and Central America (CA)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWSJU |
| WMOidentifier | WHCA42 TJSJ 080039 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.EXB.TJSJ.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-261109T2200Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-11-09T18:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Mayaguez and Vicinity
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 072003 |
| SAME | 072011 |
| SAME | 072067 |
| SAME | 072097 |
| SAME | 072099 |
| SAME | 072117 |
| SAME | 072125 |
| UGC | PRZ010 |