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Helene

Every dispatch filed on Helene, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

4Dispatches
4Days · SEP 23–SEP 26
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed3 of 4 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Helene likely to landfall as a major hurricane along Florida panhandle coast FIGURE 1 SEP 24 · I-26 TROPICS Helene likely to landfall as a major hurricane along Florida panhandle coast Major damage expected throughout Georgia as Helene plows inland FIGURE 1 SEP 25 · I-26 TROPICS Major damage expected throughout Georgia as Helene plows inland
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · SEP 23 · Subscribers Advisories have started on a potentially historical storm Gulf of Mexico
  2. Exit 2 · SEP 24 Helene likely to landfall as a major hurricane along Florida panhandle coast Florida
  3. Exit 3 · SEP 25 Major damage expected throughout Georgia as Helene plows inland Georgia
  4. Exit 4 · SEP 26 · Subscribers Rapid intensification underway through landfall
END Final dispatch SEP 26.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.