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However, Helene's lowest barometric pressure of 930 mbar (930 hPa; 27 inHg) was recorded earlier during the day. [3] Still moving northwestward due to the influence of the Azores High, the hurricane came within 10 mi (16 km) of the US East Coast before recurving towards the northeast out to sea. [1]
Hurricane warnings also extended further inland due to Helene's fast motion. The storm caused catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding, particularly in western North Carolina, East Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia, and spawned numerous tornadoes. Helene also inundated Tampa Bay, breaking storm surge records throughout the area. As of ...
The 1958 Atlantic hurricane season included every tropical cyclone either affecting or threatening land. There were ten named storms as well as one pre-season tropical storm . Seven of the storms became hurricanes, including five that were major hurricanes, or the equivalent of a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale .
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.
What did the rivers in Western NC crest at during Helene? Rivers across the region still remain swollen a week after Helene first hit down on the region. On Sept. 27, rivers burst from their banks ...
By the time Helene hit the Volunteer State on Sept 27, it was considered to be a tropical storm. Helene still proved to be a deadly storm for the region. Hurricane Helene is responsible for one of ...
October 11, 1985 – The remnants of Hurricane Waldo produce rainfall over most of West Texas, with multiple rain totals of at least 5 in (130 mm). [28] Late-October 1985 – Hurricane Juan dumps up to 10 in (250 mm) of rain in extreme southeastern Texas, peaking at 12.84 in (326 mm) in Alto, killing one coastal resident.
Only eight hurricanes have killed more than 100 people since 1950, the last time a storm as deadly as Helene hit the US came in 2017, when Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Houston and was ...