Small Craft Advisory
NWS Anchorage AK ยท US
Details
Small Craft Advisory Today
- Event
- Small Craft Advisory
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Minor
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Coastal Waters Forecast for the Northern Gulf of Alaska Coast up to 100 nm out including Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet. Wind forecasts reflect the predominant speed and direction expected. Sea forecasts represent an average of the highest one-third of the combined wind wave and swell height. .TODAY...SW wind 20 kt diminishing to 10 kt in the afternoon. In the outer bay, SW wind 30 kt diminishing to 20 kt in the afternoon. Gusts to 30 kt in the morning except gusts to 40 kt in the outer bay in the morning. Seas 5 ft subsiding to 3 ft in the afternoon except seas 8 ft subsiding to 6 ft in the afternoon in the outer bay. .TONIGHT...SW wind 15 kt. Seas 4 ft. .THU...SE wind 10 kt becoming S 15 kt in the afternoon. Seas 2 ft. .THU NIGHT...SE wind 15 kt. Seas 2 ft. .FRI...E wind 10 kt. Seas 2 ft. .SAT...NE wind 10 kt. Seas 2 ft. .SUN...W wind 15 kt. Seas 2 ft.
Affected areas
- Kachemak Bay
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Anchorage AK
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m1s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2MWRT3560PC497Y5EP8HDXB
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.a1408ece29fe41597aba97c29c9d6654b973a098.025.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Anchorage AK
- AWIPS ID
- CAPAFC
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.7850
- WMO heading
- XOAK51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- Alaska (AK)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | SCY |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CWFAER |
| WMOidentifier | FZAK51 PAFC 161038 |
| NWSheadline | SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY TODAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.PAFC.SC.Y.1468.260916T1300Z-260917T0100Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-16T17:00:00-08:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Kachemak Bay
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 058741 |
| UGC | PKZ741 |