Hurricane Helene 2024 Category 4. Helene is dumping rain across the southeast, after coming ashore as a powerful category 4 storm. As it made its historic landfall thursday night, helene was the strongest hurricane on record to slam into florida’s big bend.

Hurricane helene made landfall in the big bend area of the florida gulf coast as a category 4 storm late in the evening of september 26, 2024. The effects of helene extend past north carolina.