At sea, a storm warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when winds between 48 knots (89 km/h, 55 mph) and 63 knots (117 km/h, 73 mph) are occurring or predicted to occur soon. The winds must not be associated with a tropical cyclone. If the winds are associated with a tropical 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 flag with a black square taking up the middle ninth of the flag is used to indicate a Storm Warning (The use of two such flag denotes a Hurricane force wind warning or a Hurricane Warning).The same flag as a storm warning is used to indicate a Tropical Storm Warning.
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Famous quotes containing the words storm and/or warning:
“Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a “life-work” of teaching, of social work—we know that we would lay it down with hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)