islands as we head into the weekend. so let's take a look at this thing. also want to make mention we have the threat for tornadoes, some outer bands scrape across land and with the friction, we could see some weak spinups. so tornado watch until 2:00 a.m. for coastal north carolina. there is your official track as of 9:00. and we'll get another one in at 11:00 of category 2 storm, 100 miles per hour, expected to make landfall within the next several hours, perhaps right over moore head city and in towards cape hatteras. as we get to friday and saturday, accelerating rapidly towards the northeast, but, again, we have to watch coastal massachusetts here as we could see some tropical storm force winds, gusts as well as rain. quick look at your forecast, wind gusts as we go through time, that's around 1:00 a.m., making landfall perhaps around the morehead city area and crossing over potentially making another landfall around lake landing or nags head. and then the storm surge, of course, 3 to 6 feet along those areas where we have hurricane