Hurricane Erin's life-threatening impacts cause tropical alerts to expand from North Carolina to Delmarva

HATTERAS, N.C. – Hurricane Erin continues to churn successful the Atlantic waters hundreds of miles disconnected the U.S., prompting officials to adjacent beaches on the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast owed to monolithic waves and perchance deadly rip currents conscionable arsenic families instrumentality their last vacations of the summer.

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Hurricane Erin isn’t forecast to marque landfall on the U.S. East Coast.

However, unsafe impacts are expected nevertheless owed to outer rainfall bands perchance lashing North Carolina’s Outer Banks, wherever Tropical Storm Warnings and Storm Surge Warnings stay successful effect.

This graphic shows tropical alerts successful effect owed to Hurricane Erin.

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The Tropical Storm Warning is present successful effect from Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, to the North Carolina-Virginia border.

Officials successful Dare and Hyde counties declared section states of exigency and issued mandatory evacuation orders for tourists and residents successful fashionable areas similar Ocracoke Island and Hatteras Island.

On Tuesday afternoon, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a authorities of exigency to assistance with the effect to Hurricane Erin and to mobilize resources.

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Wrightsville Beach officials pass of unsafe rip currents

As Hurricane Erin creates highly unsafe formation conditions each up the East Coast, officials from Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, are informing radical to enactment retired of the ocean. Sam Proffitt, manager for Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue, joined FOX Weather to speech astir the dangers from rip currents and the 80 h2o rescues his bureau has done conscionable since Monday.

"To folks connected the coast, present is the clip to prepare," helium said successful a post connected X. "Check your exigency kits, marque definite you person exigency alerts turned on, and perceive to exigency guidance successful lawsuit you request to evacuate."

North Carolina Emergency Management officials opened a State Operated Shelter (SOS) successful conjunction with Warren County Emergency Management for those who needed to evacuate owed to Hurricane Erin.

Due to the threats of a storm surge and ample waves of up to 12 feet successful immoderate spots, section officials and forecasters person been informing radical to enactment retired of the h2o for safety.

A spokesperson for Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, told FOX Weather their rescue crews conducted astir 60 h2o rescues connected Monday and different 20 connected Tuesday owed to beardown rip currents. The town has present told each beachgoers to enactment retired of the water done Friday arsenic Erin gets adjacent closer. 

"These swells are producing almighty rip currents that tin make highly hazardous swimming conditions," said Sam Proffitt, manager of Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue. "The information of our beachgoers is ever our apical priority, and we impulse everyone to travel this advisory."

Where is Hurricane Erin?

As of the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Erin has maximum sustained winds of 100 mph with immoderate higher gusts, and immoderate dilatory strengthening is expected done Thursday night.

Hurricane-force winds widen outward up to 80 miles from Erin’s center, and tropical-storm-force winds widen outward up to 230 miles.

Hurricane Erin is presently located little than 500 miles to the south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and is moving disconnected to the north-northwest astatine 13 mph.

The NHC said Erin is expected to statesman a crook to the northbound connected Wednesday, followed by a northeastward question connected Thursday.

On that forecast track, the halfway of Hurricane Erin volition determination implicit the occidental Atlantic betwixt the East Coast and Bermuda done aboriginal Friday, and past walk southbound of Atlantic Canada connected Friday and Saturday.