NWS Mount Holly NJMA.W 0163August 28, 2026
Special Marine Warning: Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE, Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick
The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly issued a special marine warning for Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE, Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 NM, which was in force until 3:00 p.m. local time on August 28. It was the 163rd special marine warning the NWS office in Mount Holly issued in 2026.
ExpiredWarning
In force for 58 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Mount Holly NJ
- Area
- Delaware Bay waters south of East Point NJ to Slaughter Beach DE, Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Cape Henlopen DE out 20 NM and Coastal waters from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island DE out 20 NM
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 2:02 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2026
- Expires
- 3:00 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Likely, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KPHI MA.W 0163
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
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The notice as issued
SMWPHI The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a * Special Marine Warning for... Lower Delaware Bay... Coastal waters from Cape May NJ to Fenwick Island DE out 20 nm... * Until 300 PM EDT. * At 202 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Rehoboth Beach, moving east at 15 knots. HAZARD...Wind gusts 34 knots or greater. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and suddenly higher waves. * Locations impacted include... Overfalls Shoal, Brown Shoal Light, Slaughter Beach, Cape Henlopen, Rehoboth Beach, Cape May Point, Buoy 2ms, Indian River Inlet Bridge, and Bethany Beach.
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