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Growing risk of Coastal Flooding along the Outer Banks

Ethan Clark

September 22, 2026 at 10:11:05 PM

Our Nor’easter will start to get going by tomorrow evening. I'm still expecting a Coastal Flooding risk along the Outer Banks. Winds along the Outer Banks will gust 30-45 MPH tomorrow; coastal flooding risk will begin by tomorrow evening, but based on the data, the greatest risk of moderate coastal flooding will be with high tide Thursday morning, Thursday night, and Friday morning. We will likely see flooding along Highway 12 on Pea Island, south of Oregon Inlet and potentially in Buxton. So if you need to leave Hatteras Island because you must be off the Island Thursday/Friday or Saturday morning, I would do it tomorrow. 40-50MPH wind gusts likely Thursday into Friday along the Outer Banks.

There will be a risk of some Coastal Flooding North of Oregon Inlet, but generally less of a risk to Highway 12 in these locations.


Highway 12 at the North end of Ocracoke could also become impassable at times.


You'll have to leave Ocracoke most likely via second sound class ferry service to Swansquarter or Cedar Island, but high winds could impact that too.


I'll continue to monitor.


#noreaster #outerbanks


-Ethan

Mountains

110°F

Raleigh area

CADEN NELSON

CADEN NELSON

Hot and humid day ahead with showers and storms possible.

Jun 12
1 min read

Storm Update: Good morning, it is already hot and humid with most areas across the state in the 80s and low 90s this morning. Take it easy outside today! Thanks to the heating of the day, and a front around to spark, we should see some scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, mainly after 3PM into the evening and early overnight hours. These will be typical hit-or-miss scattered storms, so not everyone will see them by any means, but some scattered coverage is possible.


Due to extensive heating and the front in the area, a couple of stronger-to-potentially severe storms can't be ruled out. The main threat, though, would be damaging wind gusts from any storm that gets out of hand. Generally the greatest coverage of the storms will be from the center part of the state through the late afternoon and evening.


I'll pass along radar updates as usual; hopefully, some folks get lucky and get some much-needed rain to cool them down. I posted some future radars, don't take it literally, but it gives you an idea of how scattered it is.


-Ethan

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