System that became Helene was spotted a year ago. See 12

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, 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. Among those, at least 50 people in South Carolina were among the dead, including 22 in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties.