COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL)-Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene making landfall in the Big Bend of Florida. We take this time to remember the lives lost from this storm.

Helene’s Formation:

Helene started as a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea on September 20th. As it moved north into the Gulf, warm waters helped to fuel the storm. Hurricane Helene would become a Category 4 hurricane by September 26th. The storm would maintain this intensity until it made landfall in the Big Bend the night of September 26th. Peak winds were measured at 140 mph.

Winds:

As Helene moved across the Southeast on the 27th, eastern Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia saw the worst of the storm's wrath. This storm had a very large wind field, meaning that hurricane/tropical storm force w

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