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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 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.
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 ...
8:30 a.m. - Macon has seen about 7 to 8 inches of rain within the past day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Over 7 inches of rain was reported at the Ocmulgee River, and about 8 inches at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Key takeaways:•Life-threatening, damaging and disruptive impacts from Helene are underway across the interior Southeast, following the storm's landfall southwest of Perry, Florida, on Thursday ...
Over the past 30 years, the wettest tropical cyclone to strike the coastal plain was Hurricane Florence of September 2018, which dropped over 35 inches (890 mm) of rainfall in Elizabethtown. In the mountains, Hurricane Helene of September 2024 was the wettest, bringing over 30 inches (760 mm) of rainfall to Busick , which is the settlement ...