Hurricane Erin has triggered a state of emergency in North Carolina, where residents and visitors along the Outer Banks are under evacuation orders.

Hurricane Erin is entering the first stages of a post-tropical transition as it continues to move away from the eastern coast of the United States.

The Live 5 First Alert Weather team is watching a tropical wave that could produce the next tropical depression within days.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now monitoring three disturbances in the Atlantic, as Erin continues to prompt warnings along U.S. East Coast beaches. As of Friday morning, the NHC said that a "small area of low pressure located well southwest of the Azores is moving through a dry environment and producing only occasional showers."

Hurricane Erin moved past Delaware on Aug. 21, but coastal flooding and rip currents advisories are still in effect for Delaware.

Hurricane Erin continues its northerly track and is set to deliver impacts to the beaches in New Jersey and Delaware.

Although the storm is expected to stay offshore, it will produce dangerous surf conditions for much of the Atlantic Coast this week, forecasters say.

The National Hurricane Center on Friday kept watch on two developing systems in the Atlantic that could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm while Hurricane Erin began the