SMWPHI The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a * Special Marine Warning for. Lower Delaware Bay. Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet NJ to Fenwick Island DE out 20 nm. * Until 730 PM EDT. * At 648 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Rehoboth Beach, moving northeast at 20 knots. HAZARD. Wind gusts 34 knots or greater and small hail. SOURCE. Radar. IMPACT. Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves. * Locations impacted include. Overfalls Shoal, Cape Henlopen, Rehoboth Beach, Cape May Point, Buoy 2ms, Indian River Inlet Bridge, and Wildwood.

For the following areas. Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 nm. Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 nm. Coastal waters from Great Egg Inlet to Cape May NJ out 20 nm. Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE. At 713 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Overfalls Shoal, moving northeast at 20 knots. HAZARD. Wind gusts 34 knots or greater and small hail. SOURCE. Radar indicated. IMPACT. Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves. Locations impacted include. Overfalls Shoal, Rehoboth Beach, Cape May Point, Buoy 2ms, Cape Henlopen, and Wildwood.

Some showers and thunderstorms will move across much of the region, from west to east, through this evening. Some of the heavier showers or thunderstorms will be capable of producing locally gusty winds to around 40 mph and small hail. Local downpours can also occur resulting in some brief minor flooding. Any heavier showers and thunderstorms are expected to weaken or move offshore late this evening.

* WHAT. Northwest winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt expected. * WHERE. Tidal Potomac River from Indian Head MD to Smith Point VA, Chesapeake Bay main channel north of Smith Point VA, Chester River to Queenstown MD, Eastern Bay, Choptank River to Cambridge MD and the Little Choptank River, and Tangier Sound and the inland waters surrounding Bloodsworth Island. * WHEN. From 2 AM to 5 PM EDT Thursday. * IMPACTS. Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.