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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Fairbanks, AK
NWS Fairbanks, AK issued this high surf advisory at Aug 2, 2026, 12:30 PM AKDT for Kusilvak Census Area, Nome Census Area, Alaska. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2026, 12:30 PM AKDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2026, 4:00 AM AKDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fairbanks, AK
Counties Kusilvak Census Area, AK, Nome Census Area, AK
The radar
The Nome radar (PAEC), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Bethel, (PBET), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Aug 1, 3:47 PM AKDT, 20 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 3:47 PM AKDT, 20 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fairbanks, AK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:46 AM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 4 days | |
| Aug 2, 3:48 PM AKDT | Small Craft Advisory | AFG | 36 hr | |
| Aug 2, 3:49 PM AKDT | Gale Warning | AFG | 36 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.