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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 Floridaâs 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 Floridaâs Gulf Coast.
The Taylor County Sheriffâs 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.
We are just in phase 1 of a historic hurricane event. Hurricane Helene is intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads toward landfall on the northeastern Florida coast tonight.
As Hurricane Helene heads for a landfall along the Gulf Coast, communities across the Southeast are preparing for damaging wind gusts and flooding. The largest metro region, Atlanta, could see wind gusts of at least 50 mph and several inches of rainfall. Being a large city means tower cranes dot the landscape and will be subject to at least tropical storm conditions. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the metro area, which is a rare occurrence.