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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Special Marine Warning
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
114 PM EDT Mon Mar 24 2025

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...
  Coastal Waters from Cape Charles Light to Virginia-North Carolina
  border out to 20 nm...
  James River from James River Bridge to Hampton Roads
  Bridge-Tunnel...
  James River from Jamestown to the James River Bridge...

* Until 315 PM EDT.

* At 111 PM EDT, local south to southwest wind gusts to 35 kt were
  occurring near the shoreline of the southern Chesapeake Bay and
  James River ahead of a cold front.

  HAZARD...Wind gusts 34 knots or greater.

  SOURCE...Buoy. Wind Gusts of up to 35 kt were occurring near
           Lynnhaven and Middle Ground Lighthouse.

  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, Virginia Beach
  Oceanfront, Cape Henry, Thimble Shoals, Dominion Pier, Hampton
  Roads Bridge Tunnel, Lynnhaven, Hampton River Inlet, James River
  Bridge, Hampton Flats, Monitor Merrimack Bridge Tunnel, Willoughby
  Bay, Sewells Point, Cape Henry Wreck, Little Creek, and Rudee
  Inlet.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Move to safe harbor until hazardous weather passes.

&&

LAT...LON 3706 7646 3702 7641 3705 7638 3701 7580
      3677 7590 3679 7600 3682 7601 3680 7604
      3680 7611 3684 7617 3688 7618 3689 7623
      3692 7626 3686 7639 3690 7652 3694 7656
      3701 7658
TIME...MOT...LOC 1711Z 183DEG 1KT 3693 7613

HAIL...0.00IN
WIND...>34KTS

$$

MRD