Hurricane Helene hits Charlotte with flash floods and winds up to 55 mph, prompting severe weather warnings and emergency measures.

Rounds of very heavy rain and strong winds will lead to more flooding and trees down, especially west in the mountains. However, we are only expecting between two and three inches in the metro, but amounts in the high country could exceed 10 to 15 inches.

Hurricane Helene showers arrived in Charlotte Thursday morning, as the North Carolina mountains braced for up to 20” of rain and what the National Weather Service has labeled “catastrophic flooding.” At 10 a.

Helene, now a post-tropical cyclone, continues to flood parts of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley. Dozens of storm-related deaths were reported in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

ATLANTA - While most of the Atlanta metro and surrounding areas experienced significant flooding from heavy rainfall, the city saw relatively little of the tropical storm-force winds that many expected from Hurricane Helene.

Life may not soon be the same for some communities in North Carolina's mountains after Tropical Storm Helene. Heartbreak in the hills: The French Broad and Swannanoa rivers swept through Asheville near Biltmore Village.

Catastrophic flooding is the main concern across North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, as the remnants of Helene devastate the region. Dave Malkoff reports from swamped Atlanta.

Fast-moving Hurricane Helene is advancing across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, and it has been upgraded to a Category 2 storm. Havana experienced an uptick of wind and rain overnight without any damage.

At least 40 people have died in the southeastern United States following Hurricane Helene’s landfall as the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression. Tropical Storm Helene has brought flooding to the Carolinas after causing widespread destruction as a major hurricane moving through Florida and Georgia,