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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Special Marine Warning
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
1124 PM EST Tue Dec 2 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...
  Currituck Sound...

* Until 115 AM EST.

* At 1119 PM EST, a colder, drier airmass is moving down the
  Chesapeake Bay bringing strong northwesterly wind gusts, mainly
  across the lower Bay and mouth of the Bay. A few higher gusts are
  possible across the coastal waters off Virginia Beach as well.

  HAZARD...Wind gusts to 40 knots.

  SOURCE...Buoy and Wind Observations.

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

* Locations impacted include...
  Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, New Point Comfort, Chesapeake Light
  Tower, Anglo African Wreck, Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Cape Henry,
  Thimble Shoals, Sandbridge, Buoy 4a Drydocks, The Hump, Cabbage
  Patch, Rudee Inlet, Cape Charles Harbor, 1st Island Bay Bridge,
  Latimer Shoal, Plantation Light, Kiptopeke Concrete Ships,
  Lynnhaven, York Spit Reef, and Buoy 36a.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Move to safe harbor immediately as gusty winds and high waves are
expected.

&&

LAT...LON 3732 7597 3730 7593 3720 7596 3713 7594
      3712 7597 3710 7597 3704 7552 3690 7565
      3669 7556 3655 7554 3655 7585 3673 7602
      3675 7599 3682 7601 3680 7609 3698 7627
      3731 7629
TIME...MOT...LOC 0419Z 240DEG 49KT 3727 7587

HAIL...0.00IN
WIND...40KTS

$$

JP