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Gale Warning 12, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

March 19, 2026

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this gale warning at Mar 19, 2026, 2:35 AM PDT. It took effect at Mar 21, 2026, 3:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 30 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
Mar 19, 2026, 2:35 AM PDT (09:35 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2026, 3:00 AM PDT
Expired
Mar 22, 2026, 9:00 AM PDT
In force
30 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 Mar 19, 2:13 AM PDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:13 AM PDT, 22 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
Mar 18, 8:31 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMTR5 days

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.