Special Weather Statement
NWS Anchorage AK ยท US
Details
Strong Winds Along Turnagain Arm, The Anchorage Hillside, And Knik River Valley Tonight Through Saturday
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Strong southeast winds will start to increase as early as tonight as a front lifts northeastward across the Gulf of Alaska. Timing of peak winds will be late Friday morning through Friday night, then gradually tapering Saturday. Winds through Turnagain Arm will bend away from west Anchorage early Friday, but could bend into Anchorage later Friday night into Saturday morning. Periods of rain will accompany the strong winds for Turnagain Arm and the Anchorage and Eagle River Hillsides, but Anchorage Bowl and the MatSu should remain mostly dry until Saturday afternoon. Anchorage Hillside and Turnagain Arm (including South Anchorage): Winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts 40 to 55 mph. Anchorage Bowl, Knik River Valley through Butte and Palmer: Winds 10 to 25 mph with gusts 25 to 35 mph. Brief, isolated gusts to 40 mph is possible in the Butte and Palmer area Friday afternoon. Please use caution if driving or towing a high profile vehicle, or if planning any outdoor activities with easily lofted objects.
Affected areas
- Anchorage Municipality, AK
- Anchorage Hillside / Eagle River
- Lower Matanuska Valley
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Anchorage AK
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m25s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M3ARRTNTR2F9P5FC9S2W4G1Y
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.761003d2b2ee690e55b4929726f8d5e54c2dda88.001.1
- 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.7357
- WMO heading
- XOAK51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- Alaska (AK)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSAER |
| WMOidentifier | WWAK81 PAFC 242231 |
| NWSheadline | STRONG WINDS ALONG TURNAGAIN ARM, THE ANCHORAGE HILLSIDE, AND KNIK RIVER VALLEY TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Anchorage Municipality, AK
- Anchorage Hillside / Eagle River
- Lower Matanuska Valley
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 002020 |
| SAME | 002170 |
| UGC | AKZ701 |
| UGC | AKZ702 |
| UGC | AKZ711 |