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Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend as a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least 3 million homes in 5 states lost power during the storm, which has weakened to a Category 1.
Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
These Atlantic hurricanes reached Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale at their peak. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Key takeaways:•Helene is poised to make landfall near the city of St. Mark in Florida's Big Bend area as a Category 4 hurricane Thursday night. •Widespread extreme damage will occur where the ...
The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida’s Big Bend region around 11:10 p.m. just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River — about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida.
Odile had the lowest atmospheric pressure of a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific basin, east of 180°W, at 918 mbar (hPa; 27.11 inHg). Category 4, the second-highest classification on the Saffir–Simpson scale, [nb 1] is used for tropical cyclones that have winds of 130–156 mph (209–251 km/h; 113–136 kn). The division of the eastern ...