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Severe weather warning for US waters: Special Marine Warning

Official warning from NWS Wakefield VA for Currituck Sound; Coastal waters from NC VA border to Currituck Beach Light NC out 20 NM. Valid from 13 Sep 2026, 20:49 to 13 Sep 2026, 22:15 UTC.

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This alert reproduces an official warning as it stood when we published it and is not updated afterwards. The issuing service is authoritative. For what applies now, see the warning map.

Map of the official warning for US waters
Area
Currituck Sound; Coastal waters from NC VA border to Currituck Beach Light NC out 20 NM
Warning
Special Marine Warning
Level
Severe
Valid from
13 Sep 2026, 20:49 UTC
Valid until
13 Sep 2026, 22:15 UTC
Issued by
NWS Wakefield VA

What matters now

If your boat lies somewhere it can get serious, you act on the plan you made earlier, not on this page. If you have no plan, today is the day to make one.

Doubled lines, chafe protection, fenders, canvas off: half an hour of work that often decides everything. Once it starts there is no time left for it.

Photograph the boat, the lines and the surroundings before anything happens. After a storm that is the only evidence of how it looked before.

Read what your own contract says about storms and about the hurricane season. Many contracts carry their own rules for it.

When it comes to it, the instruction of the local authority and the marina applies, not what a website says.

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