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A lake wind advisory is issued by the United States
National Weather Service The National Weather Service (NWS) is an Government agency, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weathe ...
local forecast offices when windy conditions on area lakes are expected to be hazardous for boaters and other recreational events on or around lakes.


Example

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1148 AM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 LAZ017-020-022-TXZ166-167-112200- /O.EXA.KSHV.LW.Y.0038.000000T0000Z-121111T2200Z/ SABINE LA-GRANT-LA SALLE-SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MANY...COLFAX...JENA...SAN AUGUSTINE... HEMPHILL 1148 AM CST SUN NOV 11 2012 ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A LAKE WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * EVENT...WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * TIMING.... * IMPACT...BOATERS SHOULD USE CAUTION IN OPEN WATERS ON AREA LAKES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A LAKE WIND ADVISORY INDICATES THAT WINDS WILL CAUSE ROUGH CHOP ON AREA LAKES. SMALL BOATS WILL BE ESPECIALLY PRONE TO CAPSIZING. &&


See also

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Wind advisory A wind advisory is generally issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when there are sustained non thunderstorm winds of and/or gusts of over land. Winds over the said cap will trigger high wind alerts rather than a wind advi ...


References

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