High Surf Advisory issued October 16 at 2:51AM EDT until October 19 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Newport/Morehead City NC
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* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 8 to 12 feet expected in the surf zone. Waves currently forecast to peak Sunday evening and night. * WHERE...The beaches north of Cape Hatteras. * WHEN...From 2 PM Saturday to 8 PM EDT Monday. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...There is potential that high surf advisory criteria could last through much of the upcoming work-week. Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- NC, US
- Severity
- Minor
- area
- Northern Outer Banks; Hatteras Island
- event
- High Surf Advisory
- onset
- 2026-10-17T14:00:00-04:00
- states
- ["NC"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Likely
- effective
- 2026-10-16T02:51:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.673fe66b2c426d27dc74f263d8d16faea760c744.001.1
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.f04e99941c5b8f280ffa4010dcd7be8b76c6af57.001.1"]
- instruction
- Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.
- message type
- Update
- location basis
- Approximate: centers of the NWS zones listed in the alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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