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Hurricane Helene LIVE Tracker: Storm Intensifies to Category 4 Shead of Landfall in Florida | CNBC TV18 • Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and is now a tropical storm. It was the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. You can track Helene’s path with CNN’s storm tracker. • • A sprawling storm: Helene is one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century, with a wind field that could span roughly the distance between Indianapolis and Washington, DC. Watches and warnings are in place for 60 million people in 12 states. • • Widespread impacts: There have been at least five storm-related deaths. Catastrophic wind damage from the storm could cause power outages that will “likely last days, if not weeks.” Helene has also prompted school and business closures, as well as flight cancellations. • Hurricane Helene LIVE: Helene Tracker LIVE: 'Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane Helene Now a Cat. 4 on the way to Florida | CNBC TV18 • Forecasters warned that Helene could bring catastrophic storm surge and life-threatening winds to Florida's Big Bend area. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said landfall is expected around 11 p.m. ET. Landfall could happen between the Wakulla-Jefferson County line and Taylor County, in the state's Big Bend region, he said. • CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, USA - Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Helene on Thursday, forecast to be a powerful Category 4 storm when it smashes into the state's panhandle. (Courtesy of University of Tampa) • Helene has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane,'' leaping two classifications in a matter of hours Thursday as its winds intensified by 50 mph over the day on the path to what could be a catastrophic landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast tonight. • At 10 p.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said the storm was roughly 65 miles south of Tallahassee with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and moving north-northeast at 24 mph. About eight hours earlier, the storm had been at 110 mph as a Category 2 hurricane. • The National Weather Service in Tallahassee issued an extreme wind warning Thursday night until midnight ET for several counties in the Big Bend and urged residents to take cover ahead of the storm's landfall. • #Helene #FloridaGulfCoast #HurricaneHelene #FloridaNews #USAToday #LiveNews #CNBCTV18
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