Tropical Storm Ophelia knocks out power, brings high winds and flooding from North Carolina to New JerseyOphelia made landfall early Saturday morning in North Carolina, but flooding, power outages and rough seas stretched to Delaware and New Jersey.
Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, around 6:15 a.m. EDT Saturday as a strong tropical storm. People hundreds of miles away from the center of the storm have been feeling its effects since Friday, and impacts will persist well into the weekend.
As of 11:00 a.m. EDT Saturday, Ophelia had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. The center of the storm was located about 75 miles northwest of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, as it moved north at 13 mph.
Wind gusts were measured as high as 72 mph at Cape Lookout Saturday morning. More than 80,000 customers had lost power as of 8 a.m., according to PowerOutage.US, with about one-half of that number in North Carolina. Water rescues from flooding were reported by a storm chaser in Washington, North Carolina, near the storm's center.
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