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Rapid intensification is when a hurricane’s winds accelerate by 35 mph or more within 24 hours. The storm has already reached Category 4 status, although briefly, but Helene could reach that ...
Here's the latest on weather warnings and cleanup as the light of day offers a better look at what's happened over the past several days. Get weather alerts via text : Sign up to get updates about ...
In Georgia alone, more than a million people were without power as of about 3:30 p.m. ET Friday, according to USA TODAY's tracker. Chatham County had the most residents without power, at over ...
Knox News reporters and photographers have been scattered around rural parts of East Tennessee for the past two weeks. Our goal: To inform people in communities hit hardest by Hurricane Helene ...
Georgia was severely impacted by Hurricane Helene during late September 2024, causing over 34 reported deaths and significant rainfall across the state. After making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on September 27, the hurricane began to traverse over land across Georgia as a Category 2 hurricane prior to tracking into the Appalachian mountain range as a tropical storm.
Fewer hurricanes have hit Georgia directly (due to its location and shorter coastline) than other states in the Southeast, with an estimated return period of 10–11 years. The last system to make landfall in the state at hurricane intensity was Hurricane David in 1979. Further, only three major hurricanes have struck Georgia, the most recent ...
•Helene is unleashing a flooding disaster in some areas of the southeastern United States, especially in northern Georgia, upstate South C Helene sparks inland flooding disaster, widespread ...
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.