Special Marine Warning

SMWLIX

The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a

* Special Marine Warning for... Coastal Waters from Boothville LA to Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River out 20 nm... Coastal Waters from Stake Island LA to Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River from 20 to 60 nm... Coastal waters from Pascagoula Mississippi to Stake Island Louisiana out 20 to 60 NM...

* Until 115 PM CDT.

* At 1140 AM CDT, a cluster of severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts was located along a line extending from 26 nm east of Southwest Pass Of the Mississippi River to 49 nm east of Pilottown, moving northeast at 25 knots.

HAZARD...Waterspouts and wind gusts to 40 knots.

SOURCE...Radar.

IMPACT...Waterspouts can quickly form and capsize boats...damage vessels and oil rigs...and create suddenly higher waves. Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves.

* The cluster of severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly open waters.