Special Marine Warning issued March 24 at 1:14PM EDT until March 24 at 3:15PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA

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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.