Live updates: Hurricane Helene hits Florida as a Category 4 storm | CNN

By Mary Gilbert, Antoinette Radford, Alisha Ebrahimji, Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond, Kathleen Magramo, Chris Lau and Dalia Faheid, CNN Updated 4:39 AM EDT, Fri September 27, 2024 Video Ad Feedback Meteorologist gives update on Hurricane Helene 00:43 - Source: CNN What we covered here • Helene makes historic landfall: Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm and is now a Category 1. It is 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. • “Unsurvivable” storm surge: Storm surge — how high the water rises above normal levels — could climb to 20 feet along Florida’s Big Bend. The National Weather Service is warning of “unsurvivabl...