Watch: North Carolina man 'obliterated' as Hurricane Erin wave smashes into sand dune

HATTERAS, N.C. – Strong waves from Hurricane Erin knocked a North Carolina antheral disconnected his feet connected Wednesday arsenic helium filmed the impacts of the tempest successful Hatteras.

A High Surf Advisory was issued for Hatteras, wherever the National Weather Service predicted waves of astir 20 feet high.

Brian McArthur caught the enactment connected camera arsenic helium stood connected a 10-foot-tall soil dune, which was being battered by question aft almighty wave.

"I noticed the h2o sucking mode retired and erstwhile it came backmost successful determination was a treble question that sent achromatic h2o up the dune wherever I was standing," helium said to Storyful.

North Carolina antheral tumbles disconnected of soil dune washed retired by Hurricane Erin waves.

(Brian McArthur via Storyful / FOX Weather)

Before helium knew it, the h2o washed the dune retired from nether him, sending him tumbling down.

"I got obliterated," helium said.

Erin has started pulling distant from the U.S. but its impacts volition proceed into Friday for North Carolina and different Mid-Atlantic states, according to the NWS.

"Life-threatening surf and rip currents volition beryllium churning up and down the East Coast done the adjacent mates of days," the bureau noted.

HURRICANE ERIN BATTERS NORTH CAROLINA'S OUTER BANKS

In the meantime, North Carolina officials person been preparing for the tempest by issuing evacuations for tens of thousands of radical and strengthening its oceanside roadways, specified arsenic NC Highway 12 successful the Outer Banks.