6 days ago · Helene grew into a category 3 hurricane by 2:25 pm and then a category 4 hurricane by 6:20 pm, with its central pressure falling from 960 millibars to 947 millibars and its maximum sustained winds increasing from 100 miles (155 km) per hour to 130 miles (215 km) per hour in fewer than 10 hours.

Hurricane Helene (/ hɛˈliːn / ⓘ heh-LEEN) [1] was a deadly and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across the Southeastern United States in late September 2024.

Oct 18, 2024 · Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of the Florida Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm late in the evening of September 26, 2024. Helene's largest impacts were across the southern Appalachians where widespread severe and unprecedented flooding occurred with hundreds of fatalities and billions in property damage.

Oct 8, 2024 · After making landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a major Category 4 hurricane last month, Helene has caused catastrophic storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding across a wide swath of the South. Here's a look at the storm by the numbers, as impacted communities continue to gain a fuller picture of the deadly destruction.

Oct 7, 2024 · Helene was a major category 4 hurricane with peak winds of 140 mph as it made landfall just southwest of Perry, Florida in Taylor County on the night of September 26, 2024. The storm devastated Florida’s Big Bend and Gulf coast communities. Helene’s large size and expansive wind field led to tropical storm force winds, or

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida and then stormed across multiples states in the Southeast. It impacted the Blue Ridge Parkway on September 27, 2024 as a post-tropical cyclone. Its arrival in western North Carolina followed several days of saturating rain to the region. The storm devastated the area with up to ...

Sep 27, 2024 · In the two days before it hit Florida, Hurricane Helene grew from a relatively weak tropical storm into a major Category 4 hurricane. When a storm gets powerful very quickly like that,...

Nov 7, 2024 · Helene roared ashore Florida’s coast in late September 2024 as a Category 4 hurricane. But arguably the worst-hit area was hundreds of miles north, across the southern Appalachian Mountains. A deluge of rainfall over a 4-day period, September 25 through September 28, 2024, turned trickling creeks into roaring rivers.

Helene is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Additional strengthening is expected, and Helene will likely be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane at landfall.

Sep 27, 2024 · Hurricane Helene has weakened as it moved across the Gulf of Mexico toward the northwest coast of Florida. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) has reported that the storm, which hit the state...