Potential impacts include damage to porches, awnings, and mobile homes, scattered power outages, and road closures due to debris.

The storm isn’t a significant threat to land, but could drench parts of the Southeast and create risky beach conditions through the weekend.

Tropical storm warnings have been extended up to Surf City, North Carolina, as Tropical Storm Chantal is offshore of the southeastern U.S. on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm has maximum sustained wind of up to 45 mph and is moving north at just 3 mph.