US President Donald Trump called Hurricane Florence “one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years” and warned people in its path to “prepare themselves”.
Mr Trump pledged the resources of his federal government following the declaration of state emergencies in North Carolina, South Caroline, Virginia and Maryland.
Florence is a an “extremely dangerous major hurricane with life-threatening wind speeds and rip currents", according the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The hurricane was entered at 465 miles south-south-east of Bermuda, according to the NHC 4am BST (11pm AST Monday) update.
Map of USA - where will Hurricane Florence make landfall?
Florence is expected to smash into the Carolinas coast on Thursday.
Although its exact landfall between the two states is still unknown, the most likely hit is expected to be in southeastern North Carolina near the border shared with South Carolina.
NHC’s latest update said: “On the forecast track, the center of Florence will move over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Bahamas Tuesday and Wednesday, and approach the coast of North Carolina or South Carolina on Thursday.”
Florence is expected to strengthen in the next few hours, which could see it becoming a Category 5 hurricane if wind speeds reach 157mph.
Once it makes landfall, the massive storm will continue to move further inland, with heavy rainfall expected to stretch “hundreds of miles”.
Up to 15in of rain may hit in the worse affected areas, according to the NHC.
Panicked residents in the path of the storm ransacked petrol supplies at gas stations, a spokesman for North Carolina Petroleum Marketers Association said.
Nadine Schlock, assistant store manager at a BP station in Wilmington, North Carolina, said: “People are getting frantic, I know some people were upset when we were out of gas.
“We just told them we had a gas delivery on the way."
Pictures shared online have shown empty supermarket shelves as people rush to get supplies ahead of securing their homes.
Are there mandatory evacuations?
Mandatory mass evacuations for one million residents living in South Carolina will come into effect at 5pm BST (12pm local time) today.
In North Carolina, more than 250,00 people are set to be evacuated today from the northern Outer Banks.
The state’s governor Roy Cooper, who was behind the order, said North Carolina was in “the bull’s eye” of Florence.
Around 245,000 residents are also being ordered to leave Virginia at 1pm BST (8am local time).
US President Donald Trump called Hurricane Florence “one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years” and warned people in its path to “prepare themselves”.
Mr Trump pledged the resources of his federal government following the declaration of state emergencies in North Carolina, South Caroline, Virginia and Maryland.
Florence is a an “extremely dangerous major hurricane with life-threatening wind speeds and rip currents", according the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The hurricane was entered at 465 miles south-south-east of Bermuda, according to the NHC 4am BST (11pm AST Monday) update.
Map of USA - where will Hurricane Florence make landfall?
Florence is expected to smash into the Carolinas coast on Thursday.
Although its exact landfall between the two states is still unknown, the most likely hit is expected to be in southeastern North Carolina near the border shared with South Carolina.
NHC’s latest update said: “On the forecast track, the center of Florence will move over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Bahamas Tuesday and Wednesday, and approach the coast of North Carolina or South Carolina on Thursday.”
Florence is expected to strengthen in the next few hours, which could see it becoming a Category 5 hurricane if wind speeds reach 157mph.
Once it makes landfall, the massive storm will continue to move further inland, with heavy rainfall expected to stretch “hundreds of miles”.
Up to 15in of rain may hit in the worse affected areas, according to the NHC.
Panicked residents in the path of the storm ransacked petrol supplies at gas stations, a spokesman for North Carolina Petroleum Marketers Association said.
Nadine Schlock, assistant store manager at a BP station in Wilmington, North Carolina, said: “People are getting frantic, I know some people were upset when we were out of gas.
“We just told them we had a gas delivery on the way."
Pictures shared online have shown empty supermarket shelves as people rush to get supplies ahead of securing their homes.
Are there mandatory evacuations?
Mandatory mass evacuations for one million residents living in South Carolina will come into effect at 5pm BST (12pm local time) today.
In North Carolina, more than 250,00 people are set to be evacuated today from the northern Outer Banks.
The state’s governor Roy Cooper, who was behind the order, said North Carolina was in “the bull’s eye” of Florence.
Around 245,000 residents are also being ordered to leave Virginia at 1pm BST (8am local time).
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