--- title: "CAP message" summary: "IPMA's own warning message, read through MeteoAlarm: it carries the time IPMA sent each warning." mount:
head: --- > Kept by incident.entities@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 08:47 UTC. A node of the [entities](../README.md): made from [its data](cap.json), where every line names the row or decision it was taken from. Nothing is stated here for the first time. # CAP message **term**: A word this site or an authority uses with a fixed meaning: fact, evidence, hypothesis, red warning, alert situation, lead time. [All term nodes](README.md). Also written: CAP; CAP messages. IPMA's own warning message, read through MeteoAlarm: it carries the time IPMA sent each warning. (**our summary**, from [row s-1110T0718](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T0718), a row labelled fact) ## CAP message is used by - [IPMA](../../entities/body/ipma.md) · **fact** · "IPMA sends the red wind warning for Lisbon (Wednesday 12:00 to 21:00), updating a wind message sent Monday 13:27; first in the press we read at 08:05 (DN live)" · [meteoalarm.org](https://www.meteoalarm.org), IPMA's CAP message through , data/weather/cap.json (incident.meteorologist@, read 23:51); research/media/first-on-each-fact.json · from [row s-1110T0718](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T0718) ## Timeline rows that mention it (8) | When (UTC) | Label | What the row says | |---|---|---| | [11 Nov, 11:35 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T1135) | evidence | the government's crisis cabinet line leads the live pages: "O mais complicado ainda vai acontecer" (RTP) and "Governo insiste na prevenção e avisa que tempestade ainda não chegou" (ECO), beside the lowered wind (CNN Portugal quotes IPMA: "A depressão acabou por mudar as suas características", a quot… | | [11 Nov, 11:09 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T1109) | evidence | Rádio Observador (10:38) reports the overnight reassessment moved Charles's track further south, toward the Algarve, with heavy rain in Lisbon about 11:00 to 15:00 easing after about 18:00 (the press, not IPMA's written word; consistent with Faro keeping red wind, s-1111T0824). At the same sweep (10… | | [11 Nov, 09:41 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0941) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.meteorologist@, hypothesis) on the press's "two centres" (s-1111T0939). Facts: IPMA has published nothing in writing about two centres (no communiqué after no. 2, which speaks of one; its CAP texts do not describe the low). Madeira airport's pressure was lowest at 991 hPa at 06:30… | | [11 Nov, 07:38 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0738) | fact | IPMA lowered Lisbon's wind warning from red to orange, and starts it three hours earlier: orange wind, Wednesday 09:00 to 21:00, "Rajadas até 120 km/h" (was red, 12:00 to 21:00, with gusts that could reach 140 km/h in the most exposed places). IPMA sent the change at 07:16:30 as a CAP message (PO-01… | | [11 Nov, 07:27 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0727) | fact | Madeira, observed: 249.5 mm of rain in six hours at IPMA's station Areeiro, its largest six consecutive hourly values so far (was 232.1 mm at the 04:23 read); this is the measurement behind the "more than 240 mm in six hours" an IPMA meteorologist gave Lusa (s-1111T0642). Madeira airport at 07:00: w… | | [10 Nov, 23:54 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T2354) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.meteorologist@, labelled): worst window now 09:00 to 18:00, the core 12:00 to 18:00 when both reds overlap; over by 21:00. From IPMA's own issue times (CAP): red wind was sent Tue 07:18 (not 08:31 as the press had it): 28.7 h ahead; red rain 19.5 h; the move to 09:00, 11.6 h | | [10 Nov, 23:53 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T2353) | fact, decision | IPMA moved Lisbon's red rain warning three hours earlier: Wednesday 09:00 to 18:00 (was 12:00 to 18:00; supersedes s-1110T1742); orange rain now 00:00 to 09:00; red wind unchanged (12:00 to 21:00). IPMA sent the change at 21:23 (its CAP message); its open-data feed showed it only from the 23:51 read | | [10 Nov, 17:42 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T1742) | fact, decision | IPMA raises Lisbon's rain warning to red, Wednesday 12:00 to 18:00 (IPMA sent it at 16:30:01, by its CAP message; 17:42 is when the weather desk first read it) | ## Evidence (1 outside address) - meteoalarm.org · no capture of ours yet · [the address itself](https://www.meteoalarm.org) ## The same node elsewhere - The graph (data/graph/) has no node for this yet. - As data: [term/cap.json](cap.json) · [every node](../../entities/index.json) · [the grammar](../../entities/ontology.md)