Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes.

Hurricane Erin was the fifth named storm of the season. As of Thursday afternoon, the storm is still a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained wind speeds of 100 mph. Its path is taking it away from the U.S., after, for the past few days, the storm has skirted the East Coast and caused dangerous waves and life-threatening rip currents.

The Category 2 hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall. Still, it’s drawing notice as the first named storm to reach hurricane strength this year.

A state of emergency has been declared in New Jersey and a coastal flood warning is in effect for the Jersey Shore as Hurricane Erin causes dangerous conditions.

As Hurricane Erin moves east of the U.S., bringing impacts along the Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center continues to watch two areas in the tropics for possible development.

In October 2017, the ex-hurricane Ophelia struck the British Isles, bringing hurricane-strength gusts of up to 90 miles per hour, particularly along the Irish Sea coasts of west Wales, while the Republic of Ireland saw winds of up to 97 miles per hour.

The National Weather Service expects the most widespread flooding to occur during the next high tide Thursday night.

Hurricane Erin produced high surf off the coast of North Carolina. Herman Hall, Stoke Dispenser in Chief at the Kitty Hawk Kayak & Surf School, spoke about how the high surf conditions have affected surfers.

Officials are urging visitors to begin evacuating at 10 a.m. Monday from Hurricane Evacuation Zone A, which includes the unincorporated villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. Residents are to begin evacuating at 8 a.m. Tuesday.