Hurricane Category 4 Hurricane Helene

BayouWeatherGeek said:
Dunno if this has been posted already but NWS Jacksonville has lost power, NWS New Orleans has assumed back up for them.



Tornado warning for Lake City, Fl with confirmed tornado.

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Every NWS office should have some sort of backup generators, batteries or SOMETHING. Also, surprised at how well the Tallahassee Radar is handling Helene so far.
 
Low-topped supercells propogating northward, towards Atlanta. Suspicious couplet has developed in the past 15 minutes or so SE of ATL.
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TH2002 said:
Every NWS office should have some sort of backup generators, batteries or SOMETHING. Also, surprised at how well the Tallahassee Radar is handling Helene so far.
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YES!!!!
 
Helene has officially made landfall:

"Based on NWS Doppler radar data, the eye of Helene has made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Florida Big Bend region at about
11:10 PM EDT (0310 UTC) just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River. This is about 10 miles (15 km) west-southwest of Perry, Florida. Based on data from Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, the maximum sustained winds are estimated to be 140 mph (225 km/h) and the minimum central pressure is 938 mb (27.70 inches)."
 
TOR for this storm east of KJGX.
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Helene the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend of Florida on record (since 1851). The old record was the Cedar Keys Hurricane (1896) with max winds of 125 mph.
 
Over 1M without power now. Power grid mostly gone in the landfall area.

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Tampa experiencing significant storm surge.
 
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