BREAKING NEWS Large HURRICANE CATEGORY forming…
BREAKING NEWS: The National Hurricane Center (NHC)
has begun posting advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine,
which will likely become Tropical Storm Helene later today or tonight.
Big Picture: Tropical Storm Helene will likely form in the
NWCaribbean later today or tonight,
then strengthen to a hurricane as it approaches an area from the Florida Panhandle through West Central Florida on Thursday.
Helene could intensify to a category 2 or 3 hurricane that will likely produce a large wind field
, and inflict wind, storm surge and rainfall impacts to a broad area of
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
In Detail:
1. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasts an area of disorganized
thunderstorms to become better organized and form a center of circulation in the
NW Caribbean Sea later today or tonight.
The storm would likely be named Helene,
and is forecast to track through the Yucatan Channel, then become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
