Helene roared ashore florida’s coast in late september 2024 as a category 4 hurricane The national hurricane center issued its final report on hurricane helene Its death and damage tolls from florida to the appalachians are just a few of the stunning details. 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. Helene’s size and speed worsened everything from its storm surge to its extreme flooding in the mountains And another hurricane was coming right on helene’s heels.
Hurricane helene made landfall in florida as a category 4 in september 2024 before tearing through multiple states, including western north carolina. Helene entered the gulf of america later that day as a category 1 hurricane and turned northward on the western side of a subtropical ridge centered over the western atlantic. To date, helene has led to more than 230 fatalities across six states, with at least 14 fatalities occurring in florida Satellite image of hurricane helene in the gulf of mexico in the afternoon of thursday, september 26 (source During hurricane helene, the catastrophic flooding led to widespread landslides, which, along with the wind, killed more than a hundred people.
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