Small Craft Advisory
NWS Anchorage AK ยท US
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Small Craft Advisory Through Saturday Night
- 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 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. .TONIGHT...SW wind 20 kt becoming S 30 kt after midnight. Seas 8 ft. Rain showers. .SAT...SW wind 30 kt. Seas 10 ft. Rain showers. .SAT NIGHT...SW wind 30 kt. Seas 11 ft. .SUN AND SUN NIGHT...W wind 20 kt. Seas 8 ft. .MON...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 6 ft. .TUE...W wind 20 kt. Seas 5 ft. .WED...NW wind 15 kt. Seas 4 ft.
Affected areas
- Sitkinak to Castle Cape out to 15 NM
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Anchorage AK
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~59s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M3DEGSY7478D3YN64TQ8FA0S
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.197bfb5bb4554ec300bbedfe62efe161b44db291.002.1
- 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.8832
- 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 | SCY |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CWFALU |
| WMOidentifier | FZAK52 PAFC 252330 |
| NWSheadline | SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.PAFC.SC.Y.8398.260926T1300Z-260927T1300Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-27T05:00:00-08:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Sitkinak to Castle Cape out to 15 NM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 058750 |
| UGC | PKZ750 |