A tropical storm warning was issued for parts of North Carolina and a tropical storm watch for the southern end of Virginia by federal forecasters on Tuesday as Hurricane Erin continues to move north.
The storm, a Category 2 system with 105 mph winds, is not expected to make landfall in the United States, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a bulletin released at 2 p.m. ET.
The center of the monster storm will remain far offshore, forecasters said, but its outer edges are likely to bring damaging tropical-force winds, large swells, and life-threatening rip currents.
A tropical storm warning was issued Tuesday for Beaufort Inlet to the town of Duck, North Carolina, and a tropical storm watch was issued for north of Duck to Cape Charles Light, Virginia. A storm surge warning was in effect for Cape Lookout to Duck, according to the NHC….