Gale Warning
NWS Anchorage AK ยท US
Details
Gale Warning Through Tonight
- Event
- Gale Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- 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...NE wind 25 kt in the morning increasing to 45 kt. Seas 8 ft in the morning building to 13 ft. Rain. .TONIGHT...W of Middleton Island, NW wind 35 kt in the evening becoming S 15 kt. E of Middleton Island, S wind 35 kt in the evening becoming S 15 kt. Seas 13 ft subsiding to 8 ft after midnight. Rain showers. .SAT...SE wind 20 kt increasing to 30 kt in the afternoon. Seas 6 ft building to 10 ft in the afternoon. Rain showers. .SAT NIGHT...E wind 30 kt. Seas 11 ft. .SUN...SW wind 30 kt. Seas 11 ft. .MON...S wind 20 kt. Seas 10 ft. .TUE...NE wind 25 kt. Seas 9 ft.
Affected areas
- Cape Suckling to Cape Cleare from 15 to 75 NM
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Anchorage AK
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~27s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2T6B0V6W3FT5769ZBD10SC5
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.07aefa2b156a8b0455790fb15eb3240adaf4efe8.004.1
- 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.35
- 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 | GLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CWFAER |
| WMOidentifier | FZAK51 PAFC 181202 |
| NWSheadline | GALE WARNING THROUGH TONIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.PAFC.GL.W.1537.260918T1200Z-260919T1300Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-19T05:00:00-08:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Cape Suckling to Cape Cleare from 15 to 75 NM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 058712 |
| UGC | PKZ712 |