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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