Helene Hits With Category 4 Strength
Severe damages and flooding in FL, GA and the Carolinas, over 1.5 million without power, our prayers are with those effected by the strongest hurricane of 2024 (so far)
LIVE: Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida as powerful Category 4 storm
Helene is the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States this year, and it will continue to produce life-threatening conditions as moves inland over the Southeast with intense wind and flooding rain.
Updated Sep. 27, 2024 6:13 AM ART
Number of power outages continuing to rise
By Ryan Adamson, AccuWeather meteorologist
Sep. 27, 2024 5:13 AM ART
As Helene continues moving northward, power outages are spreading through northern Florida and into Georgia and South Carolina. Numerous counties are reporting more than 80 percent of customers without electricity. Power outages are likely to continuing expanding into North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky today, as Helene moves northward and then northwestward.
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Hurricane Helene continuing to produce extreme winds
By Ryan Adamson, AccuWeather meteorologist
Sep. 27, 2024 2:36 AM ART
Despite losing wind intensity and becoming a Category 1 hurricane, Helene is still producing strong and damaging winds. As a result, an extreme wind warning is in effect for portions of northern Florida and southern Georgia.
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Florida power outages surpass 1 million, continues to rise
By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and senior content editor
Sep. 26, 2024 11:58 PM ART
Powerful Hurricane Helene threatens Florida Gulf Coast
Around the time Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, power outages across the state surged to over 1 million. The majority of these outages are concentrated around Tampa and the Big Bend area, where Helene struck. According to PowerOutage.us, over 80% of tracked electric customers in Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, and Taylor counties are affected.
Power outages are also increasing in Georgia, where approximately 54,000 electric customers were without power around midnight, local time. AccuWeather meteorologists predict more outages as Helene moves inland, with some outages potentially lasting several days to over a week.
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BREAKING: Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida
By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and senior content editor
Sep. 26, 2024 11:19 PM ART
At 11:10 p.m. EDT, the eye of Hurricane Helene made landfall southwest of Perry, Florida, as a dangerous Category 4 storm with 140-mph winds. Landfall occurred extremely close to where Hurricane Debby made landfall earlier this season, and where Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida in 2023.
The risk to lives and property will remain extreme as Helene plows inland with hurricane-force winds sparking widespread power outages into Georgia that can last for an extended period of time. Additionaly, Helene could cause a flooding disaster as it unloads more than a foot of rain in the mountains of North Carolina, South Carolina and northern Georgia. “Some communities may be cut off with no way to enter or exit for days if there is damage to infrastructure such as bridges and roadways,” AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter warned.
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