Small Craft Advisory
NWS Medford OR ยท US
Updated
Details
Small Craft Advisory Now In Effect Until 11 PM PDT Sunday
- Event
- Small Craft Advisory
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Minor
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Steep seas 7 to 9 ft at 9 seconds today. North winds increasing to 15 to 25 kt tonight and Saturday with gusts up to 30 kt. This will build steep wind seas 7 to 9 ft at 6 to 8 seconds and continue through Sunday.
Where
All areas, but highest seas south of Port Orford this weekend.
When
Until 11 PM PDT Sunday.
Impacts
Gusty winds and/or steep seas could capsize or damage smaller vessels. * View the hazard area in detail at https://go.usa.gov/x6hks
Instructions
Inexperienced mariners and those operating smaller vessels should remain in port and avoid the area of hazardous conditions.
Affected areas
- Coastal waters from Cape Blanco OR to Pt. St. George CA out 10 nm
- Waters from Cape Blanco OR to Pt. St. George CA from 10 to 60 nm
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Medford OR
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~42s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M3CCSSNR82HSTV76TD1PJCMM
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.690b74ba7be064e3471e4fe64b2a2734f6bc203d.002.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Medford OR
- AWIPS ID
- CAPMFR
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2305
- WMO heading
- XOUS56
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 56
References
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | SCY |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | MWWMFR |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS76 KMFR 251341 AAA |
| NWSheadline | SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT SUNDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.EXT.KMFR.SC.Y.0078.000000T0000Z-260928T0600Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-27T23:00:00-07:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Coastal waters from Cape Blanco OR to Pt. St. George CA out 10 nm
- Waters from Cape Blanco OR to Pt. St. George CA from 10 to 60 nm
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 057356 |
| SAME | 057376 |
| UGC | PZZ356 |
| UGC | PZZ376 |