Special Marine Warning

For the following areas... Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point MD to Smith Point VA... Chesapeake Bay from North Beach to Drum Point MD... Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River... Patuxent River to Broomes Island MD... Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island...

At 549 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 nm northeast of Miles River to Coles Point, moving southeast at 40 knots.

HAZARD...Wind gusts in excess of 48 knots.

SOURCE...Observed wind.

IMPACT...Boaters could easily be thrown overboard by suddenly higher wind and waves capsizing their vessel. Boats could suffer significant damage in high winds.

Locations impacted include... Hooper Island Light, Nanticoke River Mouth, Solomons Island, Cuckold Creek, Town Creek, Taylors Island, Drum Point, Honga River, James Island, Calvert Cliffs, Richland Point Buoy, Bivalve, and Flag Harbor.