Weather Alert Watch
Severe Special Marine Warning

Special Marine Warning for Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA; Chesapeake Bay from New Point Comfort to Little Creek VA; Chesapeake Bay from Little Creek VA to Cape Henry VA including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel +3 more

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......

USChesapeake Bay from Windmill Point to New Point Comfort VA; Chesapeake Bay from New Point Comfort to Little Creek VA; Chesapeake Bay from Little Creek VA to Cape Henry VA including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; York River; James River from Jamestown to the James River Bridge; James River from JRB to HRBT, Including the Elizabeth River

Official alert brief

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... James River from JRB to HRBT, Including the Elizabeth River... James River from Jamestown to the James River Bridge... York River... * Until 1100 PM EDT. * At 931 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Coleman Bridge, moving east at 30 knots. 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, Wolf Trap, Burwell Bay, Thimble Shoals, Tue Marshes Light, Hampton Flats, The Hump, The Cell, Willoughby Bay, Sewells Point, Cabbage Patch, Cape Charles Harbor, 1st Island Bay Bridge, Latimer Shoal, Plantation Light, Mobjack Bay, Gwynns Island, Poquoson, and Dominion Pier.

Instructions

Move to safe harbor until hazardous weather passes.