Special Marine Warning

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The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a

* Special Marine Warning for... 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...

* Until 515 PM EDT.

* At 340 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Cherrystone Reef to near Bluefish Rock to near Willoughby Bay, moving east at 20 knots.

HAZARD...Wind gusts to nearly 50 knots.

SOURCE...Radar.

IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves.

* Locations impacted include... Chesapeake Light Tower, Anglo African Wreck, Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Cape Henry, Ship Shoal Inlet, Sandbridge, Great Machipongo Inlet, Sand Shoal Inlet, Fishermans Island, 10 Nm East Of Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Cape Charles Light, Cape Henry Wreck, and Rudee Inlet.