Special Marine Warning

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... Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA...

* Until 445 PM EDT.

* At 311 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near York Spit Reef to 6 nm west of Poquoson to 6 nm southwest of Monitor Merrimack Bridge Tunnel, 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 Bay Bridge Tunnel, 1st Island Bay Bridge, Latimer Shoal, Plantation Light, Thimble Shoals, Poquoson, Kiptopeke Concrete Ships, Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, Lynnhaven, York Spit Reef, Buoy 36a, Bluefish Rock, Fishermans Island, The Hump, Cabbage Patch, Cherrystone Reef, Little Creek, 4th Island Bay Bridge, Cape Charles Harbor, and Hampton River Inlet.