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Special Marine Warning

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Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE; Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE; Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet to Cape May NJ out 20 NM; Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM; Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 NM

Status Ended Started 30 minutes ago
Ends expired
Issued
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Likely

Details

For the following areas... Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 NM... Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM... Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet to Cape May NJ out 20 NM... Delaware Bay waters north of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE... Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE...
At 1038 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Brown Shoal Light to near Cape Henlopen to 10 nm south of Slaughter Beach, moving southeast at 30 knots.
HAZARD...Wind gusts to 40 knots and small hail.
SOURCE...Emergency management.
IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves.
Locations impacted include... Five Fathoms Buoy, Buoy 2fb, Brown Shoal Light, Buoy 4fb, Buoy 3fb, Fourteen Foot Bank Light, Slaughter Beach, Cape Henlopen, East Point, Bowers Beach, Rehoboth Beach, Cape May Point, Miah Maull Light, Brandywine Shoal Light, Indian River Inlet Bridge, Wildwood, Overfalls Shoal, The Lump, 28-Mile Wreck, and Cape May Reef.
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