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

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 Georgia.

Helene not only caused North Carolina’s deadliest flooding in modern history, claiming at least 108 lives within the state , but also became the nation's deadliest widespread inland flooding event in decades and killed more than 250 along its path through the U.S.