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.
