Hurricane Helene was expected to be a major hurricane -- meaning a Category 3 or higher -- when it makes landfall in Florida Thursday evening.
Helene was expected to be a major hurricane -- meaning a Category 3 or higher, with winds between 111 and 129 mph -- when it makes landfall on Florida's northwestern coastwas quickly advancing Thursday across the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida, threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in northwestern parts of the state as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S.
Rains from the storm could impact downstate Illinois and Northwest Indiana by around 1 p.m. Friday, with rain lasting into Saturday morning. Bands of widespread rain and spotty showers were expected to continue at across Illinois Saturday and into Sunday, the NBC 5 Storm Team said, though the total amount of rain wasn't expected to be high.
As of 6 a.m. Thursday, O'Hare saw 33 cancellations due to the storm, and Midway was at 19, according to the site FlyChicago.com. Some of those cancellations were due to Tampa's airport suspending all commericial flights due to the storm, NBC 5 Traffic Reporter Kye Martin said.The tracker below shows live updates of Hurricane Helene as of Thursday morning.
Early Thursday, Helene was about 350 miles southwest of Tampa and moving north northeast at 12 mph with top sustained winds of 90 mph . Forecasters said it should become a Category 3 or higher hurricane, meaning winds would top 110 mph . The storm formed Tuesday in the Caribbean Sea. In Cuba, the government preventively shut off power in some communities as waves as high as 16 feet slammed Cortes Bay. And in the Cayman Islands, schools closed and residents pumped water from flooded homes.
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