Hurricane Erin's path will not bring its strongest winds ashore. However, it continues to grow in size, and its impacts from high surf, rip currents and coastal flooding are already increasing along parts of the East Coast.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Hurricane Erin is just under 300 miles from North Carolina's Outer Banks. Waves are building and beaches are closed in Nags Head where FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne reports that officials are concerned for residents who have not evacuated nearby Hatteras Island.

Hurricane Erin has begun to move away from the North Carolina coast, the National Hurricane Center said in an Aug. 21 advisory.

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm inched closer to the mid-Atlantic coast.

According to the National Hurricane Center, a weather station at Jennette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, measured sustained winds of 41 mph and a gust of 49 mph early Thursday morning. The greatest impacts from Erin were focused on the central Outer ...

Meteorologists are closely tracking the projected path and forecast of Hurricane Erin, which is the first hurricane to develop over the Atlantic this year.