Tropical Storm Hanna Moves Through Carolinas With Minimal Impact

(AHN) - The Carolinas are in a wait and watch mode as a true survey of any damage will happen after sunrise. As of 5 a.m. ET, when the latest storm update was released from the National Hurricane Center, the overall damage throughout the region appeared limited. Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall Saturday morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

According to South Carolina Emergency Management spokesman Derrec Becker roughly 10,000 South Carolina homes were without power, mostly in the Myrtle Beach area, Becker said to CNN. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, nearly 12,000 homes were without electricity, according to State Emergency Management spokesman Mark Van Sciver.

In both states there have been no reports of serious injuries or deaths.

According to the latest update, Tropical Storm Hanna extended northward to Merrimack River, Massachusetts. A tropical storm warning is now in effect from North of the South Santee River South Carolina to Merrimack River, Massachusetts. The Tropical Storm warning means that Tropical Storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours, according to the NHC.

At 5 a.m. the center of tropical storm Hanna was located 150 miles northeast of, Charleston South Carolina and 25 miles west-northwest of Wilmington, North Carolina. The center of the storm is set to move across the eastern region of North Carolina this morning. The storm is expected to move along the mid-Atlantic coast later today and tonight and then progress along the coast of the northeastern U.S. coast and Southeastern Canada on Sunday.