Rip Current Statement issued October 10 at 12:06PM EDT until October 12 at 4:00AM EDT by NWS Tallahassee FL
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* WHAT...For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking waves of 3 to 7 feet in the surf zone. For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...For the High Surf Advisory, until 7 PM CDT this evening. For the High Rip Current Risk, through late Sunday night. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions. 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.
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- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- FL, US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- South Walton; Coastal Bay
- event
- Rip Current Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-10T12:06:00-04:00
- states
- ["FL"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Likely
- effective
- 2026-10-10T12:06:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.65669f0191cf759dc827781f059c153571609c04.001.4
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.f811a8a3cf0feebb01dc96d59e5005ac12669ed0.001.1","urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e75476cc80d04a4d3cff50c138c2c7a4eb0d85af.001.3"]
- instruction
- Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions. 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.
- message type
- Update
- freshness minutes
- 60
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