The National Hurricane Center (NHC) discontinued its tropical storm warnings for nearly all of the North Carolina coastline at 5 p.m. ET on Aug. 21 as Hurricane Erin moved further northeast.
As of its 5 p.m. advisory, the NHC tracked Hurricane Erin now east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and 375 miles northwest of Bermuda. Moving at 20 mph, its maximum sustained winds were still steady at 100 mph with hurricane-force winds—74 mph and greater—extending out 105 miles from its center and tropical storm-force winds—39 mph to 73 mph—stretching 320 miles out.
Erin’s distance from the Outer Banks has increased nearly 100 miles in the last three hours, after being located 285 miles away from Cape Hatteras by the NHC’s 2 p.m. advisory update….