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In Huntington, a wind gust of 70 mph (110 km/h) was recorded; which was the second highest wind gust ever recorded at that station. [297] In Illinois, Helene's remnants produced heavy rains and high winds, causing several thousand outages. [298] The waves on Lake Michigan were as high as 10 ft (3.0 m). [299]
Further inland, several weather stations reported hurricane-force winds. The Weather Bureau office in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported maximum sustained winds of 88 mph (142 km/h) and a peak gust of 135 mph (217 km/h), exceeding the previous record for fastest measured wind speed of 98 mph (158 km/h) set during Hurricane Hazel in 1954. [1]
Sassafras Mountain in Pickens County saw top wind speeds of 73 mph during Hurricane Helene, marking the highest rate of wind in South Carolina. Greenville-Spartanburg recorded 68 mph winds due to ...
Inland counties in the big bend region were struck with major hurricane-force winds as Helene moved inland. The highest recorded sustained wind in the state was a 1-minute measurement of 74 mph by a 7.4 foot (2.25 m) National Wind Institute probe in rural Suwannee County. [70]
Spruce Pine saw wind gusts as high as 50 mph Asheville saw wind gusts of 46 mph Highest wind gust reports from Hurricane Helene across the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia. #scwx #ncwx # ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. − Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night carrying catastrophic 140 mph winds as the first known Category 4 storm to hit Florida’s Big Bend region since records began ...
Its sustained winds of 345 km/h (215 mph) are also the highest on record globally. Storms with a minimum central pressure of 925 hPa (27.32 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1949, and most storms since are only estimated because landfalls (and related reconnaissance) are less common in ...
NOAA pointed out Helene's wind fields extend up to 275 miles from its core, warning communities in the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia to prepare for "catastrophic, life-threatening inland ...