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Special Marine Warning
ActiveChesapeake Bay from New Point Comfort to Little Creek VA; Currituck Sound; Chesapeake Bay from Little Creek VA to Cape Henry VA including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; James River from JRB to HRBT, Including the Elizabeth River; Coastal waters from Parramore Island to Cape Charles Light VA out 20 NM
Status
In Progress
Started about 1 hour ago
Ends
Issued
Severity
Severe
Urgency
Immediate
Certainty
Likely
Details
SMWAKQ
The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a
* Special Marine Warning for... Chesapeake Bay from Little Creek VA to Cape Henry VA including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel... Chesapeake Bay from New Point Comfort to Little Creek VA... Coastal Waters from Cape Charles Light to Virginia-North Carolina border out 20 NM... Coastal waters from Parramore Island to Cape Charles Light VA out 20 NM... Currituck Sound... James River from JRB to HRBT, Including the Elizabeth River...
* Until 100 AM EDT.
* At 1128 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 nm southwest of 26 Mile Hill to Anglo African Wreck to near James River Bridge, moving southeast at 15 knots.
HAZARD...Wind gusts 34 knots or greater.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves.
* Locations impacted include... Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Chesapeake Light Tower, Anglo African Wreck, Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Cape Henry, Ship Shoal Inlet, Thimble Shoals, Sandbridge, Hampton Flats, The Hump, Cape Charles Light, Cabbage Patch, Rudee Inlet, 1st Island Bay Bridge, Latimer Shoal, Poquoson, Kiptopeke Concrete Ships, Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, Lynnhaven, and Hampton River Inlet.
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