Gale Warning
NWS Anchorage AK ยท US
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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 Southwest Alaska+Bristol Bay+The Alaska Peninsula Waters and the Aleutian Islands up to 100 nm out. 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...SE wind 35 kt increasing to 45 kt in the afternoon. Seas 9 ft building to 14 ft in the afternoon. Rain showers. .TONIGHT...SW wind 35 kt diminishing to 25 kt after midnight. Seas 14 ft. .FRI...S wind 25 kt. Seas 14 ft. Rain. .FRI NIGHT...SW wind 30 kt. Seas 17 ft. .SAT...W wind 30 kt. Seas 16 ft. .SUN...W wind 25 kt. Seas 12 ft. .MON...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 8 ft.
Affected areas
- Sitkinak to Castle Cape from 15 to 100 NM
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Anchorage AK
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~46s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M39NTPVN4BGPT97XXM0FXZTH
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.406fac87b9ad0641cc76520aa235e2e5255129b2.003.1
- 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.531
- WMO heading
- XOAK52
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- Alaska (AK)
- WMO bulletin number
- 52
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | GLW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CWFALU |
| WMOidentifier | FZAK52 PAFC 241221 |
| NWSheadline | GALE WARNING THROUGH TONIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.PAFC.GL.W.7532.260924T1200Z-260925T1300Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-25T05:00:00-08:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Sitkinak to Castle Cape from 15 to 100 NM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 058751 |
| UGC | PKZ751 |