warning; the land-based equivalent in National Weather Service warning products is a wind advisory.

Other sources use minima as low as 28 kn, and maxima as high as 90 kn. Through 1986, the National Hurricane Center used the term "gale" to refer to winds of tropical storm-force for coastal areas between 33 kn and 63 kn. The 90 kn definition is very non-standard. A common alternative definition of the maximum