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Severe weather warning for US waters: Special Marine Warning, Tampa Bay waters
Official warning from NWS Tampa Bay Ruskin FL for Tampa Bay waters; Coastal waters from Englewood to Tarpon Springs FL out 20 NM. Valid from 19 Sep 2026, 20:25 to 19 Sep 2026, 21:30 UTC.
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This alert reproduces an official warning as it stood when we published it and is not updated afterwards. The issuing service is authoritative. For what applies now, see the warning map.
- Area
- Tampa Bay waters; Coastal waters from Englewood to Tarpon Springs FL out 20 NM
- Warning
- Special Marine Warning
- Level
- Severe
- Valid from
- 19 Sep 2026, 20:25 UTC
- Valid until
- 19 Sep 2026, 21:30 UTC
- Region
- US waters
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay Ruskin FL
What matters now
If your boat lies somewhere it can get serious, you act on the plan you made earlier, not on this page. If you have no plan, today is the day to make one.
Doubled lines, chafe protection, fenders, canvas off: half an hour of work that often decides everything. Once it starts there is no time left for it.
Photograph the boat, the lines and the surroundings before anything happens. After a storm that is the only evidence of how it looked before.
Read what your own contract says about storms and about the hurricane season. Many contracts carry their own rules for it.
When it comes to it, the instruction of the local authority and the marina applies, not what a website says.