Tropical Storm warnings covered most of Florida ahead of Helene’s Cat 3 strike
Tropical Storm Helene remained on the cusp of hurricane status Wednesday morning. NHC
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Florida is expected to feel Tropical Storm Helene’s high winds and rains as soon as Wednesday- including Miami-Dade and Broward counties, now under new warnings.
During the coming 24 hours, Helene is anticipated to grow from a tropical storm to a major order 3 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. As Helene roars through the Gulf, massive storm surges hang life along the entire West Coast.
The peak is 15 bases of storm swell above ground in the Big Bend area, where landfall is prognosticated late Thursday or early Friday. still, damaging situations will be felt further south, up to 8 bases above the Tampa Bay area. obligatory evacuations have been called for at least 10 West Coast counties, with voluntary or partial evacuations in several further.
utmost counties are under a state of exigency, and FEMA and Florida began planning aid and staff to prepare on Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Helene remained on the cusp of hurricane status Wednesday morning. NHC
Overnight, Helene strengthened and organized, and she grew wider. By Thursday morning, when Helene is nearest Tampa Bay, its wind field is anticipated to be nearly 430 long hauls wide. This is with the utmost of it on the east side. The last storms that sized in the Gulf were Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Ike in 2008. “ Helene’s wind field will be so large that indeed passing 325 long hauls west of Miami on Thursday isn’t enough to keep the entire#Florida promontory from being placed under a Tropical Storm Warning, ” John Morales, a hurricane specialist at NBC5, posted on Twitter Wednesday morning. The Keys will feel Helene first, starting as soon as Wednesday autumn. The decreasingly frequent breezy storms will work up the state overnight and into Thursday. South Florida will feel the mass of them before Helene hooks into the Big Bend area late Thursday. Several days before it makes landfall, the hurricane center predicts that Helene will have sustained winds of at least 65 mph
