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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Special Marine Warning

National Weather Service Wakefield VA

153 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024



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...

  York River...



* Until 400 AM EDT.



* At 152 AM EDT, gusty east to southeast winds continue to be 

  obeserved in the Lower Chesapeake Bay and York River. These gusty 

  winds are associated with a northward moving low pressure system 

  and are expected to diminish after 3 or 4 AM.



  HAZARD...Wind gusts 34 knots or greater.



  SOURCE...Radar.



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

           suddenly higher waves.



* Locations impacted include...

  Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, New Point Comfort, 1st Island Bay

  Bridge, Latimer Shoal, Plantation Light, Mobjack Bay, Cape Henry,

  Thimble Shoals, Poquoson, Kiptopeke Concrete Ships, Hampton Roads

  Bridge Tunnel, Coleman Bridge, Tue Marshes Light, York Spit Reef,

  Buoy 36a, Bluefish Rock, The Hump, Cape Henry Wreck, Cabbage Patch,

  and Little Creek.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



Move to safe harbor until hazardous weather passes.



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LAT...LON 3736 7669 3740 7660 3729 7647 3731 7644

      3737 7645 3741 7635 3737 7627 3737 7631

      3731 7627 3731 7602 3735 7594 3713 7594

      3712 7597 3688 7600 3696 7614 3691 7619

      3697 7630 3710 7633 3735 7670

TIME...MOT...LOC 0552Z 216DEG 26KT 3802 7514 3818 7567 



HAIL...0.00IN

WIND...>34KTS



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