Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L

Watching local news in Talahassee



They aren't getting a direct hit but the western eyewall is going to hit, and they are expecting 100 MPH sustained, and to treat it like a tornado alert. They are telling people in the city to move to the center of their house or take shelter in their bathrooms with mattresses over them.

They expect the trees in the city to come down on houses.
 
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937.7 mb pressure reading according to recon. My guess on peak surface winds is about 145 mph right now.
Still another 20 minutes before land fall. She's so close to slapping a royal flush on the table. She's already going into history but if she adds "Cat 5 at landfall" to her tiara she will be a legend.

Camera in Horseshoe beach on a 15 foot light pole is getting overflowed by waves.

Town of Perry in Taylor County has won the prize. Landfall will occur here.
 
This is why you live in a state that has tornados instead of hurricanes. Yeah it's still a swirling vortex of death but at least it's a dry swirling vortex of death.
An F4 got within a 1/2 mile of me around 10 years ago. While I was hiding in the basement, my weather station got 5" of rain... in 12 minutes.
 
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Dekle Beach is in the eye.
Landfall is once the very center of the eye/center of low pressure crosses into land, so it's still a few minutes until that happens.
 
I'm shocked the power keeps coming back on in Perry, FL despite all the powerflashes.
Edit: Oh my god, that livestream is beyond fucking horrifying. The whistling sounds and occasional complete darkness. Those guys have balls of steel.
 
NWS Jacksonville has lost power, alongside power for the KJAX and KVAX radars, which creates a near-complete radar-hole near Jacksonville, FL.
NWS New Orleans is taking over of their warnings instead of NWS Tallahassee, because they also anticipate to lose power alongside the KTLH radar.
 
From Forecast Discussion #15 for Hurricane Helene:
The hurricane is about to make landfall in the Florida Big Bend
region. Timely observations from Air Force and NOAA Hurricane
Hunter aircraft showed that Helene continued to strengthen rapidly
to Category 4 status before it approached the coast, with the
central pressure falling at about 3 mb per hour since this
afternoon. Peak 700 mb flight-level winds from the aircraft were
136 kt, corresponding to an intensity of about 120 kt, which might
be a bit conservative.
Radar and satellite images show numerous
mesocyclones rotating around the eyewall.
It's possible that they retrospectively upgrade the windspeeds at landfall after the season ends, similar to what they did with Hurricane Ian.
 
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I think Helene has made landfall now, as of approximately 11:10pm EST. Awaiting the official announcement from the NHC now.
 
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