Tropical Major Hurricane Helene

[LithiaWx]

Up to 4-4.25” here just west of ATL. Flash flood warning already….

 

[Sctvman]

JZI has warmed up seven degrees in the last 3 hours from 75-82. Don’t see that often. Winds gusting at 30

 

[South AL Wx]

 

[Shawn]

For more story, there is a place that sells those little sheds across the road.

That was the only one out of at least 30+ that blew away.

 

[Jimmy Hypocracy]

One big tell.is the lack of major structural debris as they drive around. If perry just took the eyewall of 140mph cane then they must have some stellar building codes. Not much tree debirs or building debris scattered around

Yeah I was watching some livestreams when it made landfall and all I could think was “y’all sure this is a cat4?” Obviously there are major issues with this storm but it just didn’t at all look like the typical stream from a land falling major hurricane

 

[Belle Lechat]

 

[jrips27]

 

[Shaggy]

Still think this has a decent easterly component based on last center fix and radar. I'm using the little notch at the top of the big bend as reference

 

[GaStorm]

Yeah I was watching some livestreams when it made landfall and all I could think was “y’all sure this is a cat4?” Obviously there are major issues with this storm but it just didn’t at all look like the typical stream from a land falling major hurricane

Yeah the highest sustained wind in Perry was 55mph with a gust near 100 according to TWC. Seemed strange to me.

 

[crecre9]

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Moving northward fast now.

Pressure dropped 34 mb in 24 hours, that's intense.

 

[Brent]

Yeah I was watching some livestreams when it made landfall and all I could think was “y’all sure this is a cat4?” Obviously there are major issues with this storm but it just didn’t at all look like the typical stream from a land falling major hurricane

To be fair I do wonder if some of that is because it hit the middle of nowhere and also Perry is a good 10 miles inland. It's not even on the beach

 

[F-5]

Yeah I was watching some livestreams when it made landfall and all I could think was “y’all sure this is a cat4?” Obviously there are major issues with this storm but it just didn’t at all look like the typical stream from a land falling major hurricane

The fact they had a storm hit less than a year ago means that it would be like a storm hitting Mexico beach today, structures that were weak were impacted previously and have been rebuilt to high standards

 

[LithiaWx]

Looks due north the last few frames.

 

[Shaggy]

To be fair I do wonder if some of that is because it hit the middle of nowhere and also Perry is a good 10 miles inland. It's not even on the beach

A cat 4 isn't gonna weaken that much in 10 miles. There's a better chance that even though we saw crazy flight level winds and low pressures the wind field just wasn't or didn't have time to.get to the surface.

Isabel in 2003 was a good case study on that. I had a pressure of 954mb saw a hurricane hunter fly through the eye as i sat in the calm southwest side of the eye and we only gusted to 51mph with a 954mb pressure

 

[SnowwxAtl]

Looks due north the last few frames.

I still see NNE

 

[LithiaWx]

TWC says water rescues in Clearwater.

 

[Shawn]

Check timestamps on your radars. Some of the sites are wonked out and old imagery b/c of power issues etc. I am using KTLH and it is working so far.

 

[Darklordsuperstorm]

 

[lj0109]

 

[Brent]

This was 50 feet off the ground