Hurricane Dorian officially made landfall on the North Carolina coast earlier on Sept. 6, its first landfall on the U.S. mainland.
The center of the storm passed over Cape Hatteras at 8:35 a.m. ET, packing winds of 90 mph and producing heavy rainfall.
At 11 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center reported that Dorian was a Category 1 storm, located about 50 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras and 460 miles southwest of Nantucket, Mass. It was moving northeast at 17 mph and still had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph.
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 45 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 220 miles.
A hurricane warning remains in effect from Bogue Inlet to the border of North Carolina and Virginia, including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds. Storm surge warnings are up from Salter Path, N.C., to Poquoson, Va., including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds, the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers, and Hampton Roads.
A hurricane watch has been issued for Nova Scotia, Canada, while tropical storm watches are in effect from the border of North Carolina and Virginia to Fenwick Island, Del.
Tropical storm warnings are in effect for the following areas: Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point southward; tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island, Md.; Woods Hole to Sagamore Beach, Mass.; Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and in Maine from east of Bar Harbor to Eastport.
The hurricane is expected to move away from the coast of North Carolina on its northeast track over the next several hours. The center should move to the southeast of extreme southeastern New England this evening and into the morning of Sept. 7, then across Nova Scotia later that day.
The rescue and recovery efforts continue in The Bahamas, with the official death toll up to 30. British officials said they expect the final numbers to be "staggering."
AIR Worldwide in a Sept. 6 note said it estimates insured losses attributed to Dorian in the Caribbean will be between $1.5 billion and $3 billion. It added that hurricane relief organizers who flew over the hardest-hit area of the Abacos described the damage as total devastation.
