Hurricane Helene is forecast to make landfall along the Florida Big Bend on Thursday evening. It's also expected to impact major cities including Atlanta, Nashville and St. Louis.
While Florida braces for Hurricane Helene, the size of the storm means widespread impacts will be felt across the eastern U.S. late this week, including damaging winds, flooding rain and possible tornadoes in states well into the Southeast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest after landfall. On its current track, the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Helene is forecast to make landfall along the Florida Big Bend on Thursday evening as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of at least 115 mph.
TRACKING HELENE: LIVE FORECAST CONE, SPAGHETTI MODELS, ALERTS, WIND PROJECTIONS AND MOREThe large storm will bring widespread heavy rain, damaging winds and possible tornadoes to cities in the Southeast, including Atlanta and Asheville, North Carolina. Ahead of those impacts, the governors of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina have declared states of emergency.
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