Helene has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves through Georgia early Friday. It is causing life-threatening storm surge, winds, and flooding rain. This is hours after it made a devastating landfall in Florida’s Big Bend coast.
Helene made landfall at about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, with 140 mph winds. This made it the first known Category 4 storm to hit Florida’s Big Bend region in 1851.