Tornado Updates

FOX Weather Meteorologist Bob Van Dillen found himself in the middle of a harrowing rescue mission during Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene continues its deadly onslaught on the Southeast after the catastrophic storm made landfall in Florida late Thursday night, and while weakening is now underway, the storm continues to unleash damaging winds and flooding rain hundreds of miles to the north in Georgia, including the city of Atlanta.

Hurricane Helene produced a record storm surge from around the Tampa metro northward through Florida’s Big Bend. The surge level was estimated to have reached over 10 feet in Cedar Key and caused significant damage along the coast.

Hurricane Helene has made landfall into Florida's Big Bend region as a catastrophic storm, lashing the region with devastating wind, and threatening a potentially "unsurvivable" 20-foot storm surge and flooding rain.

A drone intentionally steered into Hurricane Helene in the eastern Gulf of Mexico took video of the strengthening cyclone in the hours before its was set to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office in the Big Bend of Florida is taking a dire step for residents who chose not to heed mandatory evacuation warnings for Hurricane Helene.

In Buncombe County, a local state of emergency was declared Wednesday to help the cities of Asheville, Biltmore Forest, Weaverville, the Woodfin, Black Mountain and Montreat.

In the midst of Hurricane Helene's assault on Florida on Thursday and the formation of Tropical Storm Isaac in the North Atlantic on Wednesday, the tropics are showing no signs of stopping.

Even though hurricanes are rated by wind, water is the most deadly impact from tropical cyclones that strike the U.S.