WATCH: Likely tornado damages Florida homes ahead of Hurricane Helene
A suspected tornado tore through Southwest Florida early Thursday morning as Hurricane Helene's outer rain bands swept through the region.
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A suspected tornado tore through Southwest Florida early Thursday morning as Hurricane Helene's outer rain bands swept through the region.
Hurricane Helene is unleashing its fury on Florida with landfall in the coming hours as a major hurricane along the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Helene, intensifying from a tropical storm, struck Mexico's coastal state of Quintana Roo on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to Cancun and surrounding areas.
While Florida braces for Hurricane Helene, the size of the storm means widespread impacts across the eastern U.S. later this week, including damaging winds, flooding rains and possible tornadoes in states well into the Southeast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest after landfall.
A frantic search is underway for a 5-month-old boy and his grandmother in central Tuscany after torrential rains caused rivers to overflow and flood their home.
The massive tower of dust blew its way through a field in Anson, Texas, engulfing a tractor and a vehicle in dust and debris in its wake.
Millions of people living on the Gulf Coast from Florida to Louisiana are being urged to make sure preparations are in place as Invest 97L continues to become better organized and will likely become Tropical Storm or Hurricane Helene in the coming days as the system enters the Gulf of Mexico.
Right on time, the first fall storm of the season will bring cooler temperatures and crisper air to the Central U.S. after a dusting of snow in the Colorado Rockies over the weekend.
The ingredients for a storm to develop in the northwestern Caribbean Sea or the southern Gulf of Mexico are coming together more or less as expected. On the current schedule, a storm will develop midweek and track toward the northern Gulf or the west coast of Florida. Impacts could begin as early as Thursday.
The U.S. Coast Guard reported that it successfully rescued three boaters from a sinking vessel about 10 miles south of Honolulu Harbor on Thursday. A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted the boaters from the 25-foot vessel named Ichiban to safety.