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Marine Tropical Storm August 21, 2025 · Chesapeake Bay From Little Creek, Va, To Cape Henry, Va, Including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Atlantic North

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Third Island (XBBT) mesonet measured tropical storm force winds of 30 to 45 knots between 3 AM and 6:30 PM EST with a peak gust of 43 knots at 12:03 PM EST. The Lynnhaven Inlet Light (XLHI) mesonet measured tropical storm force winds between 30 and 35 knots between 8 AM and 5 PM EST with a peak gust of 34 knots at 9:39 AM EST.

The wider storm

The center of Hurricane Erin stayed several hundred miles east of the Middle Atlantic coast on August 21, 2025. However, due the extremely large size of the cyclone with an expansive wind field, tropical storm force gusts occurred over the coastal waters and lower/middle Chesapeake Bay.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1292175. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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