Flooding from both heavy rain and wind-driven storm surge will extend from eastern North Carolina to southern New England into Monday night as a sprawling tropical wind and rainstorm crawls northward before turning out to sea, AccuWeather meteorologists warn.

On Sunday, the tropical wind and rainstorm's structure is spread out in an arc for nearly 1,000 miles from the Carolina coast to southern New England and then eastward to north of Bermuda over the central Atlantic.

Because of this vast expanse, rather than a compact, intense storm, some of the impacts may fall short of the worst-case scenario. However, impacts related to rain, wind, coastal flooding and erosive surf will be significant to severe for many beach communities from the Carolinas to southern New England.

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