Another big hurricane season and our first frost
Randy Mann.
JAKE PARRISH/Press
It’s been another unusual season for tropical storm and hurricane activity. Last Thursday, a very strong Category 4 hurricane, Helene, hit the Big Bend region of Florida. As the storm moved inland, heavy rainfall was reported throughout the Southeast. One station in North Carolina, Busick, picked up nearly 30 inches of rain from the hurricane. Most other locations received from 5 to 15 inches of rain, especially across Georgia, Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia and South Carolina.
Helene was the strongest hurricane to hit Florida’s Big Bend region in history. It was also the third one to make landfall in this area within the last 13 months. The flooding was also catastrophic as many long-time flood records, especially in North Carolina, were broken. In addition to the heavy rainfall, wind gusts were near 100 miles per hour when the hurricane made landfall.
Hurricanes will often produce tornadoes before and after they make landfall. At least a dozen were spotted across parts of the Southeast from last Wednesday through Friday. The most tornadoes ever observed from a hurricane was 49 in 2008 from Hurricane Gustav.
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