Video: Hurricane Florence Rocks Wooden Pier in Nags Head

The effects of Hurricane Florence can already be felt along the coast of North Carolina as of 12 p.m. on Sept. 13.

Footage shows a pier and a beach in Nags Head, North Carolina, being hit with heavy surf as the storm rolls into the area.

According to Storyful, the video was shot at the Fish Heads Bar & Grill pier in Nags Head.

Forecasters expect Florence to hit the Carolinas early in the morning on Sept. 14.

Reports out of Wilmington, North Carolina, said that the outer bands of wind and rain from Florence, a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, are hitting North Carolina.

“It truly is really about the whole size of this storm,” National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham told The Associated Press. “The larger and the slower the storm is, the greater the threat and the impact—and we have that.”

According to the NHC’s forecast discussion at 12 p.m. on Sept. 13: “The subtropical ridge to the northeast and east of Florence is now well-established between Bermuda and the U.S. mid-Atlantic region and extends westward into Virginia and the central Appalachians. This large-scale feature is expected to keep the hurricane moving northwestward today, followed by a turn toward the west at a much slower speed on Friday as the ridge to the north of Florence weakens due to a weak shortwave trough dropping slowly southward from the Ohio Valley.”

After that, Florence is forecast to move northwest and north and move across western South Carolina on Sunday,  Sept. 15, and across western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee on Monday, Sept. 16, the NHC said. It will then move along the “spine of the Appalachians.”