Tropical Storm Helene: September 26-27, 2024

Overview

Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of the Florida Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm late in the evening of September 26, 2024. Although slowly weakening as it moved north across the Deep South and then northwestward across the southern Appalachians, Helene caused significant impacts across a large portion of the Southeast U.S., especially around the southern Appalachians.

Hurricane Helene satellite animation September 26-27, 2024

GOES-16 GeoColor satellite loop from September 26 to 27, 2024

showing Helene moving through the Southeast U.S.

Wind and Rainfall

Here across the eastern Carolinas, rain and winds were somewhat less of a concern given the larger distance from the storm's center. Storm total rainfall ranged from less than an inch along the coast to over four inches inland. Wind gusts peaked in the 45 to 60 mph range during the morning hours of September 27.

Hurricane Helene's center passed hundreds of miles west of our area today but still brought wind gusts up to 60 mph and...
Posted by US National Weather Service Wilmington NC on Friday, September 27, 2024

Additional local rain and wind reports are available here: Rainfall Summary | Wind Gust Summary