Gale Warning

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Gale Warning Today

Event: Gale Warning
Issued: 2026-09-26 13:16:00 UTC
Onset: 2026-09-26 13:00:00 UTC
Message expires: 2026-09-27 02:00:00 UTC
Expected end: 2026-09-27 01:00:00 UTC
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...SW wind 40 kt. Seas 20 ft. .TONIGHT...W wind 30 kt. Seas 16 ft. .SUN...W wind 25 kt. Seas 9 ft. .SUN NIGHT...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 9 ft. .MON...NW wind 25 kt. Seas 8 ft. .TUE...W wind 15 kt. Seas 6 ft. .WED...S wind 20 kt. Seas 5 ft.

Affected areas

Unimak Pass

Public contact

Issuer: NWS Anchorage AK
Website: http://www.weather.gov

Message record

Received: 2026-09-26 13:16:59 UTC
Issue to receipt: ~1m0s
CAP status: Actual
CAP message type: Alert
Lifecycle: New
Source: NWWS-OI
Feed: NWWS
Recovered: No

CAP routing and identity

ULID: 01M3EXS8SB6GYS27V00W5HRMTD
Identifier: urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.aed8194fca59c4f1573c5bd37881096d45099c9c.012.1
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.1810
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 261316
NWSheadline	GALE WARNING TODAY
BLOCKCHANNEL	EAS
BLOCKCHANNEL	NWEM
VTEC	/O.NEW.PAFC.GL.W.1471.260926T1300Z-260927T0100Z/
eventEndingTime	2026-09-26T17:00:00-08:00
BLOCKCHANNEL	CMAS

Locations

Location data

Unimak Pass

Name	Value
SAME	058768
UGC	PKZ768