CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border and "large and dangerous battering waves" will be expected east of Hanna’s center.

The coastal storm surge will reach 5 feet above normal tide levels, as the National Hurricane Center in Miami stated. The big waves will be visible on Saturday near the beaches of Oak Island in North Carolina. Sand dunes were already flattened by pounding along the beach.

Big waves threatened the island’s Ocean Crest pier but it couldn’t affect it so bad because the pier was rebuilt after Hurricane Floyd destroyed it nine years ago.

The Hurricane Center also announced that Tropical Storm Hanna could bring rainfall accumulations up to 7 inches from coastal South Carolina through central and southern North Carolina, reaching the states inside the Atlantic.

Still, Hanna could weaken before it travels the mid-Atlantic coast to New England, but it will leave heavy rain behind it. As the Hurricane Center stated, "The potential for flash flooding will be significant for the mid-Atlantic region and southern New England."

The coastal plains of the Carolina together with the state of Virginia could be affected by isolated tornadoes on Saturday morning as the storm was moving very fast, at about 20mph, from the southern Bahamas.

Tropical storm warnings were released from Altamaha Sound, Georgia, to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including all of Chesapeake Bay, the tidal Potomac River, Washington and Delaware Bay. Emergency centers and shelters were opened in North and Southern Carolina and evacuation orders won’t be late to appear either.