The NWS Newport/Morehead City NC issued an updated coastal flood warning at 2:58 p.m. on Sunday in effect until Monday at 5 p.m. for Northern Outer Banks.

The NWS Wilmington NC released an updated coastal flood advisory at 7:58 p.m. on Saturday valid for Sunday between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. for Inland New Hanover.

A powerful nor’easter making its way up the Eastern Seaboard is gaining strength as tens of millions of people from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast and New England brace for heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and massive waves that have put coastal communities on alert for major flooding and beach erosion.

On Saturday at 1:43 p.m. an updated coastal flood advisory was released by the NWS Wilmington NC in effect until 2 p.m. for Coastal Pender and Coastal New Hanover.

The NWS Newport/Morehead City NC issued a coastal flood warning at 3:19 p.m. on Saturday in effect until Monday at 8 a.m. for Northern Outer Banks.

The Nor'easter is forecast to slam into the east coast on Sunday. Authorities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware have issued warnings calling on people to be prepared for wind, rain and floods

After a day of flooding rainfall and extreme “King” high tides at the coast, the heaviest rain is moving offshore around a developing coastal storm that will be a Nor’easter over the weekend, moving away from central Florida.