LithiaWx
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Tropical Major Hurricane Helene
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WTNT64 KNHC 261825
TCUAT4
Hurricane Helene Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092024
225 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024
...AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTERS FIND HELENE A MAJOR HURRICANE...
The Air Force Hurricane Hunters found that the maximum sustained
winds have increased to near 120 mph (195 km/h). This makes
Helene a dangerous category 3 major hurricane. Additional
strengthening is expected before Helene makes landfall in the
Florida Big Bend this evening.
SUMMARY OF 225 PM EDT...1825 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...26.7N 84.9W
ABOUT 170 MI...280 KM WSW OF TAMPA FLORIDA
ABOUT 205 MI...335 KM S OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 16 MPH...26 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...959 MB...28.32 INCHES
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Forecaster Cangialosi/Berg/Brown
WTNT64 KNHC 261825
TCUAT4
Hurricane Helene Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092024
225 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024
...AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTERS FIND HELENE A MAJOR HURRICANE...
The Air Force Hurricane Hunters found that the maximum sustained
winds have increased to near 120 mph (195 km/h). This makes
Helene a dangerous category 3 major hurricane. Additional
strengthening is expected before Helene makes landfall in the
Florida Big Bend this evening.
SUMMARY OF 225 PM EDT...1825 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...26.7N 84.9W
ABOUT 170 MI...280 KM WSW OF TAMPA FLORIDA
ABOUT 205 MI...335 KM S OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 16 MPH...26 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...959 MB...28.32 INCHES
$$
Forecaster Cangialosi/Berg/Brown
Major
Tornado Warnings lining up in south GA
It’s kinda surreal to be seeing the talk of comparisons to the Flood of 1916. My grandparents were children living in the mountains for that and both always had numerous stories about how high the water was
DustinWx
Moderator
Betting on 140 mph cat 4
tractor girl
Member
Four tornadoes side to side, radar indicated NW of Waycross, GA heading north
jaymackd3
Member
at this rate, maybe even a tick more. Pretty crazy how it's organized in the past few hours
tractor girl
Member
Update the tornado near Braxton is on the ground:
LithiaWx
Member
Could the proximity of land and the shape of the coast be aiding Helene in tightening up?
ForsythSnow
Moderator
Yesterday I said 145 at Alligator point. Looking more likely now.
First rainfall has arrived here. Looking like pretty rapid strengthening is commencing. Widespread gusts into the 50s looking more likely across the upstate and southern foothills of NC. Still not sold on numerous 70 mph gusts, but if that happens, particularly with all of the rain that has fallen already, it will be an unmitigated disaster zone across a large portion of the area.
dsaur
Member
After an 1/8th inch day of drizzle, and occasional light showers, I'm in Helene rain now. The kind that piles up...like yesterday afternoons rain. If this gets like TD Alberto did back in 93, I'll need a regulator and tank to breath outside....and diving weights to slow down the side ways/backward drift, lol.
tractor girl
Member
A fifth tornado NW of Waycross GA to go along with the observed tornado! Five in a row!
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Here she come 
New update from Levi
dsaur
Member
It's the clusters in those bands that makes dodging so iffy. Feels like a shooting gallery when one of these bands comes up. The two including Ivan were bad here that way. Like a scatter gun going off south and here they come. The weather radio going off over and over. Radar lighting up.
It was posted on the TropicalTidbit YouTube page 19 minutes ago.