Where is Perry, Florida? The center of Hurricane Helene’s landfall

WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS AT 8:00. THAT’S AN UPDATE ON HURRICANE HELENE. AND THIS STORM IS JUST GETTING STRONGER. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I’M MICHELLE IMPERATO, AND I’M JESSE PAGAN. HELENE IS NOW FORECAST TO BECOME A MAJOR CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE BY THURSDAY. WE’RE JOINED BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST TONY MAINOLFI METEOROLOGIST CAM TRAN. GUYS, THAT NEW UPDATE JUST CAME DOWN. BANDS STARTING TO PUSH IN, BUT WE’VE GOT OTHER INFORMATION ON THAT. YEAH. SO WITH THE 8:00 ADVISORY, THE WINDS DID NOT REALLY CHANGE. BUT WHAT WE ARE WATCHING FOR IS THE MILLIBAR PRESSURE THAT IS A SIGN THAT THE STORM IS STRENGTHENING THE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANES. THERE’S ACTUALLY TWO OF THEM IN THE SYSTEM RIGHT NOW INVESTIGATING. AND THEY DID SEE A PRESSURE DROP IN THIS STORM. TONY SO THE CORRELATION THAT WE LIKE TO MAKE IS THE PRESSURE DROPS. THE WINDS NORMALLY GET HIGHER OR STRONGER. IT DIDN’T DROP ON THE IT DIDN’T INCREASE THE WINDS. BUT I THINK WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SEE IN THE NEXT ADVISORY 11 IS YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A BIGGER POP IN THE WIND SPEED AS THE PRESSURE CONTINUES TO COME DOWN. YOU CAN GET THE PRESSURE TO DROP. AND SOMETIMES THE WINDS NOT TO GO UP. THAT’S WHAT WE’RE SEEING RIGHT NOW. BUT I THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THAT KIND OF FIX ITSELF AT 11:00. NOW, THE STORM HAS BEEN OVER WATER, SO THIS IS EXPECTED. YEAH. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY EXPECTED. IN FACT, WE’RE JUST BEGINNING THAT RAPID INTENSIFICATION. RIGHT NOW. SO LET ME TAKE YOU BACK OUTSIDE. I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE SCENES NOW WITH OUR PARTICULAR STORM SYSTEM HERE AND WHAT IT’S DOING ON THE AIRPORTS, 88 FLIGHTS ON TIME, 36 DELAYED, FOUR CANCELED. THIS BOARD IS GOING TO BE CHANGING A LOT, BEGINNING LATE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. SO WE’LL CONTINUE TO POP THAT IN FOR YOU FROM TIME TO TIME. NORTH NOW MOVEMENT AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE THE WIND SPEEDS 85 HASN’T GONE UP FROM THE 5:00 ADVISORY, BUT AS CAM ALLUDED TO, THE PRESSURE IS STILL COMING DOWN. SO WE’LL LIKELY SEE A BIGGER INCREASE IN THE WINDS AROUND THE CORE AS WE GET TO THAT 11:00 ADVISORY. SO HERE IS HELENE SIZE COMPARISON TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA. UNDERNEATH IT AND IN THE FAR NORTHWESTERN CORRIDOR, THERE ARE THREE COUNTIES OUTSIDE OF ANY WARNINGS JUST TO KIND OF SHOW YOU THE OVERALL LARGE SIZE OF THIS STORM. WELL OUTSIDE OF THE CONE. AND LOOK AT THIS. THE NEW INFORMATION FROM THE 5:00 ADVISORY CAT. FOUR WINDS AT 130 MILES AN HOUR. AND THERE’S ROOM FOR THAT TO GET A LITTLE BIT STRONGER BEFORE LANDFALL. INCREDIBLY GOOD AGREEMENT. NOW FOR SEVERAL RUNS ON OUR COMPUTER MODELS. AND THEY’RE ALL WITHIN THE CONE. GIVES US A HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT WE’RE DOING A GOOD JOB WITH WHAT WE’RE BEING PRESENTED WITH. SO THE CONFIDENCE FOR LANDFALL THERE CONTINUES TO BE QUITE HIGH ALONG WITH THE FORECAST THERE. FOR THIS TO BE A MAJOR HURRICANE. EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE IN SYNC. THE THING THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF IS THAT WHEN WE TAKE A LOOK AT HELENE, THERE ARE GOING TO BE FAR REACHING IMPACTS. WELL, OUTSIDE OF THAT CONE. AND WE CANNOT STRESS THAT ENOUGH. ALTHOUGH THE GREATEST WIND CONCERN IS NOT HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA, IT IS UP HERE. STATE CAPITAL OVER TOWARDS APALACHICOLA. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PUT YOUR SHUTTERS UP. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT A HURRICANE COMING HERE. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ALL ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA, WESTERN MARION COUNTY COULD BE A FEW GUSTS AT OR JUST ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE. THAT UPPER LOW IS BEGINNING TO PULL THIS NOW TO THE NORTH. IT WILL SLINGSHOT IT TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST. HERE, AS WE GO THROUGH THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS, THE SIZE OF THE STORM, ABOUT 650 MILES WIDE, THE SIZE OF THE WIND FIELD, NOT THAT BIG IN THE YELLOW AREA. CLOSER TO 250 TO 325 MILES. NOW AND GROWING WITH EACH HOUR. LET’S TAKE A LOOK NOW TO WHAT’S GOING ON DOWN TO THE SOUTH. HAVEN’T HAD ANY WARNINGS. REMEMBER WE TRY TO LOOK AT THESE STORMS AS KIDS TO SEE WHAT THEIR BEHAVIOR IS DOWN TO THE SOUTH, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS HERE EVENTUALLY HEADS OUR WAY. SO SO FAR, SO GOOD AS THE STORM IS LIFTING TO THE NORTH NOW, WE’VE HAD A COUPLE OF BANDS COME ON THROUGH CENTRAL FLORIDA. NO REAL SIGNIFICANT WINDS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR. SO FAR. BUT THE ONE THING I AM WATCHING AGAIN, THIS STORM IS RIGHT IN HERE. SOME VERY WARM WATERS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO THAT IS GOING TO ALLOW FOR THIS STORM TO CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY. AND THAT’S GOING TO HAVE A BIG IMPACT O

Where is Perry, Florida? The center of Hurricane Helene’s landfall

Updated: 10:40 PM EDT Sep 25, 2024

As Hurricane Helene prepares to land on Thursday, many are wondering where it will make landfall: and Perry appears to be the target. Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday. Its size is forecast to be about 370 miles just before touching down. Perry, Florida, a small town located in Taylor County, appears in the Big Bend region just 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The town contains about 7,000 people, according to the 2023 U.S. Census.Most counties in the Big Bend region are under a hurricane warning. Only three counties aren’t under warnings in the far western Panhandle. St. Marks, a city in Wakulla County and Gadsden County, bordering Tallahassee’s Leon County, are also in the path of the hurricane.Helene also brings the danger of life-threatening storm surge along the west coast of the Florida Peninsula and Florida Big Bend, where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect, according to the National Hurricane Center. The peak storm surge in the Big Bend region will bring waves 15 to 20 feet high. With winds from 130-156 mph, it can bring catastrophic damage with most trees down and power and water out for weeks in this area. >> Track Hurricane Helene Radar here:

ORLANDO, Fla. —

As Hurricane Helene prepares to land on Thursday, many are wondering where it will make landfall: and Perry appears to be the target.

Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday. Its size is forecast to be about 370 miles just before touching down.

Perry, Florida, a small town located in Taylor County, appears in the Big Bend region just 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The town contains about 7,000 people, according to the 2023 U.S. Census.

Most counties in the Big Bend region are under a hurricane warning. Only three counties aren’t under warnings in the far western Panhandle.

St. Marks, a city in Wakulla County and Gadsden County, bordering Tallahassee’s Leon County, are also in the path of the hurricane.

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Helene also brings the danger of life-threatening storm surge along the west coast of the Florida Peninsula and Florida Big Bend, where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The peak storm surge in the Big Bend region will bring waves 15 to 20 feet high. With winds from 130-156 mph, it can bring catastrophic damage with most trees down and power and water out for weeks in this area.

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