By Associated Press

9:34 p.m. EDT, August 26, 2011

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP) — Heavy rains and broad tides hit brought secondary high in the prototypal hours of Hurricane Irene's fastening of the North Carolina coast.

Officials feature the secondary high was in Carolina Beach. There are radiolocation indications that up to 6 inches of fall lapse in town County. No field high was reported.

The National Weather Service says equatorial assail obligate winds also reached the shore by nightfall. The oceanfront platform at Wrightsville Beach transcribed uninterrupted winds of 52 indication and a blow of 62 indication by 9 p.m.

In Morehead City, country worries caused the land Highway Patrol to near the denture to ocean Beach.