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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
748 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A
* SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR...
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM DRUM POINT MD TO SMITH POINT VA...
CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NORTH BEACH TO DRUM POINT MD...
CHOPTANK RIVER TO CAMBRIDGE MD AND THE LITTLE CHOPTANK RIVER...
PATUXENT RIVER TO BROOMES ISLAND MD...
TANGIER SOUND AND THE INLAND WATERS SURROUNDING BLOODSWORTH
ISLAND...
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.
* AT 747 PM EDT, STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 9 NM WEST OF MAYO TO FORT WASHINGTON TO MASON NECK
STATE PARK, MOVING EAST AT 25 KNOTS.
HAZARD...WIND GUSTS 34 KNOTS OR GREATER.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...BOATERS IN SMALL CRAFT COULD BE THROWN OVERBOARD BY
SUDDENLY HIGHER WINDS AND WAVES CAPSIZING THEIR VESSEL.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DARES BEACH, FLAG HARBOR, JAMES ISLAND, CALVERT CLIFFS, AND DRUM
POINT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY AS GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES ARE
EXPECTED.
LAT...LON 3831 7641 3836 7645 3835 7643 3838 7640
3850 7652 3868 7653 3861 7621 3861 7627
3857 7631 3853 7628 3854 7621 3851 7621
3850 7633 3847 7633 3831 7623 3831 7622
3840 7623 3832 7615 3832 7620 3829 7611
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 284DEG 24KT 3893 7672 3874 7701 3863 7722
HAIL...0.00IN
WIND...>34KTS
GEIGER
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