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Hurricane Helene (/ h ɛ ˈ l iː n / ⓘ heh-LEEN) [1] was a deadly and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across the Southeastern United States in late September 2024.
Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles. Moving steadily westward, the storm slowly intensified, attaining hurricane strength on September 26.
A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the 2015 season; rarely do these storms actually affect Hawaii.
Finally, ominously, forecasters were also turning their attention back to the Caribbean Sea, where yet another system appears to be brewing in a similar location to where Hurricane Helene formed.
A look back on Hawaii's hurricane history shows just how rare it is for hurricanes to impact the islands, and what the most impactful storms were. ... A Category 1 hurricane that formed in ...
As Hurricane Helene formed and strengthened in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Mitch Hampton, 54, paid close attention. A longtime river guide and co-owner of French Broad Adventures, which ...
Hurricane Helene (2018) – Category 2 hurricane that formed between Cape Verde and West Africa; Hurricane Helene (2024) – extremely large and destructive Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, and caused catastrophic flooding and damage across the Southeastern U.S. In the South-West Indian Ocean:
In 1950 a tropical cyclone that affected Hawaii was named Able, after a tropical cyclone had not affected Hawaii for a number of years. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The system was also named Salome by the Air Weather Service Office in Guam, before it became widely known as Hurricane Hiki.