System that became Helene was spotted a year ago. See…

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Hurricane Helene caused historic flooding and destruction across the southern Appalachians one year ago.

The storm was responsible for more than 250 deaths, with at least 108 fatalities in North Carolina alone.

Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane before weakening and causing record rainfall inland.

Recovery efforts are still ongoing in affected regions, with some sites only recently reopening to the public.

It’s been a year since meteorologists first spotted the system that would become Hurricane Helene , a storm that strengthened into a major hurricane, made historic landfall in Florida’s Big Bend and unleashed record rainfall and flooding across the southern Appalachians, leaving a trail of destruction from North Carolina to