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    A gale warning is an alert issued by national weather forecasting agencies around the world in an event that maritime locations currently or imminently...
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    typically issue gale warnings when winds of this strength are expected. In the United States, a gale warning is specifically a maritime warning; the land-based...
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    cyclone, a tropical storm warning will be substituted for the storm warning and less severe gale warning. In US maritime warning flag systems, a red square...
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  • Gale Warning is a 1939 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer). It was first serialised in Woman's Home Companion (March 1939...
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    Beaufort scale (redirect from Gale force)
    with force 8 or 9 winds bringing about a gale warning, force 10 or 11 a storm warning ("a tropical storm warning" being issued instead of the latter two...
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    triangular flag (two such flags, one placed above the other, signify a gale warning). Inland, this advisory is known as a wind advisory. A lake wind advisory...
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    all issue tropical storm/hurricane watches and warnings. Tropical storm watches are issued when gale and storm force winds of between 34 and 63 knots...
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  • Shipping Forecast (category Weather warnings and advisories)
    also known as weather areas. The forecast begins by listing areas with gale warnings, followed by a general synopsis of pressure areas, then a forecast for...
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    hurricane warning will be issued. If winds are lighter than 64 knots, a storm warning or gale warning will be issued. The hurricane force wind warning is only...
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  • (North Cone) was hoisted for warning of gales from the north or east while a cone pointing downwards (South Cone) warned of gales from the south or west. A...
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