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Gale Warning 1, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

December 31, 2025

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this gale warning at Dec 31, 2025, 8:33 PM PST. It took effect at Jan 2, 2026, 3:00 AM PST. It was in force for 41 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 31, 2025, 8:33 PM PST (04:33 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 2, 2026, 3:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 3, 2026, 8:12 PM PST
In force
41 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this gale warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this gale warning went out at Dec 31, 4:28 PM PST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 4:28 PM PST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 2:04 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMTR31 hr
Jan 1, 2:06 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 5 more54 hr
Jan 1, 12:22 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementMTRSan Benito23 min
Jan 1, 12:42 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementMTRSan Benito33 min

Nearby

Gale Warnings in California, 2026Every gale warning in 2026

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.