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Small Craft Advisory

Issued by the National Weather Service - Key West, FL

    SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY  

Small Craft Advisory issued October 25 at 10:20AM EDT until October 27 at 5:00AM EDT by NWS Key West FL

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT

Areas Affected: Florida Bay including Barnes Sound, Blackwater Sound, and Buttonwood Sound; Bayside and Gulfside from Craig Key to West End of Seven Mile Bridge; Gulf of America from West End of Seven Mile Bridge to Halfmoon Shoal out to 5 Fathoms; Hawk Channel from Ocean Reef to Craig Key out to the reef; Hawk Channel from Craig Key to west end of Seven Mile Bridge out to the reef; Hawk Channel from west end of Seven Mile Bridge to Halfmoon Shoal out to the reef

Urgency: Expected

Severity: Minor

Certainty: Likely

Alert Sent: Sunday 10:20am EDT

Alert Effective: Sunday 10:20am EDT

Alert Expires: Sunday 6:30pm EDT (expect updated alert by this time)

Event Onset: Sunday 10:20am EDT

Event Ends: Tuesday 5:00am EDT

Issued by: NWS Key West FL

Details: 
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT...

* WHAT...Northeast winds increasing to 20 to 25 kt with gusts up
to 30 kt.

* WHERE...Hawk Channel, and Florida Bay and the nearshore Gulf
waters.

* WHEN...In Effect.

* IMPACTS...A Small Craft Advisory means that wind speeds of 20
to 33 knots, or seas of 7 feet or greater, are expected to
produce hazardous conditions for small craft. These hazardous
conditions may result in poor vessel handling and steering
response, broaching, overturned dinghies and kayaks, slips and
falls on slippery decks, rub damage along docks and seawalls,
swamped bows at reef tract mooring balls, and dragging anchors.

Information: 
Inexperienced boaters, especially those with smaller vessels,
should avoid operating in these conditions.

Meta data: 
ID: urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.5125924d4fdccff4e1fd34ed1a9571d0d65e1e35.002.1
Codes: GMZ031, GMZ032, GMZ035, GMZ042, GMZ043, GMZ044
Link: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.5125924d4fdccff4e1fd34ed1a9571d0d65e1e35.002.1