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Hurricane Helene (2024) - After making landfall in Florida as a category 4, Helene entered Georgia as a strong category 2 hurricane. Helene caused extensive damage from high winds and flooding rain. The storm brought extreme winds to portions of southern Georgia. In Valdosta, at least 115 buildings were seriously damaged. [42]
Georgia was severely impacted by Hurricane Helene during late September 2024, causing over 30 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.
At 1600 UTC later that day, hurricane emergency and gale warnings were extended north to Manteo, North Carolina, while hurricane watches were continued for coastal regions from Savannah, Georgia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. After Helene began recurving away from the coast, all warnings south of Wilmington, North Carolina were discontinued ...
Maps show devastation: Track Hurricane Helene's 800-mile path of destruction across Southeast Catastrophic flooding from Helene in Black Mountain, N.C., is seen in drone footage. Deadliest ...
Georgia power outage map: ... "Helene stands toe-to-toe with any of the threats that Florida has faced over the past 10 years or indeed really over hurricane history," Truchelut said.
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900 Death Toll: 6,000–12,000 Financial Impact: Estimated $30 million at the time (~$700 million adjusted for inflation) At the time, 38,000 people lived in ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
A 100-year-old home in Valdosta, Ga., is damaged by an oak tree after Hurricane Helene moved through the area on Sept. 27. “It’s going to take a lot longer. We’ve got a lot, a lot of damage ...