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Weather successful America: August 19, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera.
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Hurricane Erin moves person to US prompting Tropical Storm, Storm Surge Watches successful North Carolina
Millions of radical up and down the East Coast person been told to prepare for impacts from Hurricane Erin arsenic the monster Category 3 hurricane continues connected its travel crossed the Atlantic, bringing it adjacent to the U.S. this week.
Hurricane Erin is not expected to marque landfall successful the U.S. However, outer bands from the monolithic tempest could lash the North Carolina coastline with tropical-storm-force winds and dense rainfall arsenic it passes by the Outer Banks, wherever a Tropical Storm Watch and a Storm Surge Watch were issued.
Officials successful immoderate North Carolina communities person told residents and visitors to evacuate and declared section states of exigency up of imaginable life-threatening impacts.
(FOX Weather)
Atlantic Invest 99L down Hurricane Erin brews arsenic Main Development Region roars to beingness with 2 areas to watch
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring 2 areas to ticker for tropical development down Hurricane Erin arsenic the Atlantic Ocean's Main Development Region roars to life.
The archetypal country has been nether the eyes of the NHC for a fewer days arsenic it emerged disconnected Africa's westbound coast. On Tuesday morning, it was designated arsenic Invest 99L, which allows the NHC to tally specialized computer forecast models connected the strategy to get much accusation astir its aboriginal way and intensity.
The NHC flagged a 2nd country to ticker for tropical improvement connected Monday nighttime arsenic different tropical question moved disconnected the seashore of Africa, and it is present respective 100 miles southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands.
(FOX Weather)
See it: Long lines agelong astatine North Carolina ferry terminals arsenic Hurricane Erin prompts evacuation orders
Hurricane Erin continues to churn arsenic the Category 3 tempest moves crossed the Atlantic Ocean, prompting immoderate areas on North Carolina's Outer Banks to statesman evacuations.
Images shared by the North Carolina Ferry System connected Monday day showed the ample enactment of land residents flocking to the evacuation site. The ferry strategy is assisting successful the efforts to assistance radical safely get disconnected the susceptible island.
This representation provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation shows a enactment of vehicles waiting to evacuate Ocracoke Island up of life-threatening impacts from Hurricane Erin.
(North Carolina Department of Transportation / FOX Weather)
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