Rip Current Statement
NWS Charleston SC ยท US
Updated
Details
Rip Current Statement issued September 15 at 2:08PM EDT until September 16 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Charleston SC
- Issued
- Onset
- Expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Dangerous rip currents.
Where
Georgia Beaches.
When
Through Wednesday 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
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Charleston SC
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2K43T70N4TVACNS7MK5V3F8
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.15d430a4193f825a6f957c13a271a8ac2973fb2a.001.1
- 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.115
- WMO heading
- XOUS52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
References
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.52888c6470e0e7be55cac2dda5ede587726f6791.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.efb4413d77fe621b55b7e4f7348e76e42cabc518.002.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | RPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWCHS |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS42 KCHS 151808 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.EXT.KCHS.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-260917T0000Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.48be1454001be8809ac4d52c09839b6088945b99.001.1,2026-09-15T02:22:00-04:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.c87e7a5ed44cdd6ecc31abe3d6a962ee6ecea2ac.001.1,2026-09-14T19:34:00-04:00 w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov,urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7e5bf410e15be2122bb724ec48c1b2843ecc4c2d.001.1,2026-09-14T14:06:00-04:00 |
Locations
Location data
- Coastal Bryan
- Coastal Chatham
- Coastal Liberty
- Coastal McIntosh
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 013029 |
| SAME | 013051 |
| SAME | 013179 |
| SAME | 013191 |
| UGC | GAZ217 |
| UGC | GAZ219 |
| UGC | GAZ239 |
| UGC | GAZ241 |