High Surf Warning
NWS Medford OR ยท US
Details
High Surf Warning Remains In Effect From 10 AM Friday To 10 PM PST Saturday
- Event
- High Surf Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Dangerously large breaking waves of 20 to 25 ft Friday, increasing to 30 to 35 ft late Friday through Saturday.
Where
Beaches of South Central Oregon Coast and Curry County Coast. This includes Charleston, Port Orford, Gold Beach, and Brookings.
When
From 10 AM Friday to 10 PM PST Saturday.
Impacts
Extremely large breaking waves will create very hazardous conditions along beaches and area shorelines. Waves will inundate beaches and surge into normally dry areas. Infrastructure damage and significant beach erosion can be expected.
Additional details
Conditions may improve somewhat late Saturday as breaking wave heights lower to 24 to 27 ft, but another large ocean swell will maintain hazardous beach conditions much of the weekend and into Monday. * View the hazard area in detail at https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
Instructions
Beaches and coastlines will become hazardous due to very large and life-threatening surf conditions. Stay off of beaches, rocks, jetties,piers, and other waterside infrastructure.
Affected areas
- South Central Oregon Coast
- Curry County Coast
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Medford OR
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~46s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Update
- Lifecycle
- Updated
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M77MWVKENBBTHQ0N7CTP8NHF
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.148fc6991cbac232eaa9a08826e7bef17b6d1be3.001.1
- Sender
- [email protected]
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Medford OR
- AWIPS ID
- CAPMFR
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.7582
- WMO heading
- XOUS56
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 56
References
- Sender
- [email protected]
- Sent
- Sender
- [email protected]
- Sent
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | NWS |
| NationalWeatherService | SUW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | CFWMFR |
| WMOidentifier | WHUS46 KMFR 121029 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH SURF WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM FRIDAY TO 10 PM PST SATURDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| VTEC | /O.CON.KMFR.SU.W.0002.261113T1800Z-261115T0600Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-11-14T22:00:00-08:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
| expiredReferences | [email protected],urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1aa264bd5f31db71e808b57288a5698d3479be9e.001.1,2026-11-11T05:04:00-08:00 |
Locations
Location data
- South Central Oregon Coast
- Curry County Coast
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 041011 |
| SAME | 041015 |
| SAME | 041019 |
| UGC | ORZ021 |
| UGC | ORZ022 |