NorthHillsWx

Sadly the death toll continues its rapid ascent. Nearly 100 confirmed dead. That will surely continue to grow as first responders reach some of the isolated and cut off mountain communities in NC

This is still a massive power outage event

5 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I’m guessing if there were higher echelon winds, it happened to my SE in the zone between Perry and Salem where there’s nothing. We were more northern eyewall than that exceptional east side. Do you know if any chasers measured wind in that zone? 

I will also say I saw someone driving in Laura’s NE eyewall in pitch darkness. People are crazy lol. 

Honestly it felt like Perry was the chaser convergence zone considering track and surge threat closer to the coast. I’m guessing that velocity maxima you highlighted was the peak wind impact zone but with a cat 4 and so many cameras running in what looked to be a ferocious northern eyewall you’d think that something high end would’ve been caught but to my knowledge it wasn’t. Absolutely not downplaying the storm 

This is the only and last time I’ll mention this but from what I’ve seen I’m not sure the really high end hurricane winds occurred onshore. Surge was predictably bad but I’ve seen dozens and dozens of chaser videos from around Perry and they’re out driving around in it. You do not drive around in cat 3+ winds because… you can’t. I understand Perry wasn’t on the coast and wouldn’t have experienced the worst winds the storm had to offer, but most chasers have compared it to cat 2. Also I haven’t seen any visuals of cat 4 wind damage. Everything I’ve seen is surge. Maybe the SE eyewall that came ashore in the marsh had the real winds, just kinda surprised that northern eyewall wasn’t more potent. Obviously doesn’t matter. This is going to go down as one of the most damaging and destructive storms in history due to its inland impacts, just an observation I’ve made since I’ve had time to look at dozens of chaser videos. Maybe I’m way off and someone has some high end wind footage or damage pics, I just haven’t seen yet. Usually it’s easy to find after a storm like this with that many chasers 

Season cap is off. Now everything wants to develop 

Lots of conflicting reports but the death toll has risen to at least 43 and is expected to keep going up as rescuers reach some of the cut off mountain towns and sift through the debris. 
 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/28/hurricane-helene-tropical-storm-updates-saturday/75417411007/

Definitely some potential brewing in the gulf. Not what anyone wants to hear but pretty solid signal for development at this point. Cannot even imagine another system on the heels of Helene’s devastation 

2.17” from Helene brings our MTD total to 13.52”

Probably the worst storm to ever hit the western Carolina’s. Let that sink in. Flooding would’ve met the mark alone but the wind damage is insane 

Hits home when people you connect with on here are seriously affected by a storm. Thinking bout yall western folks… Yall will get lots of powdery snow and no ice this winter 

https://x.com/margoinwnc/status/1839717416227450950?s=46&t=NyKvXvI1o-sJQb-68mmo4g

2.17” storm total here. Last inch fell in 25 minutes

Any update on river levels? Anything break all time records yet

14 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

If anybody has reports from Clemson please pass along. 

Lots of trees down and roads closed due to flooding and fallen trees. Outside the main campus and downtown businesses most everyone is lights out. Probably similar to Greenville 

Duke energy surpassed 1 mil outages in Carolina’s 

https://x.com/markhuneycutt4/status/1839632280165253555?s=46&t=NyKvXvI1o-sJQb-68mmo4g

Exceptional, catastrophic, unimaginable flooding ongoing in the western Carolina’s. Unreal 

Downtown Greenville sustained 41 gusting 60

Anderson 67 mph gust

Just now, buckeyefan1 said:

Power here is out and I have underground utilities  Easily 60+ gusts and the freaky noises continue 

Gusts to 55 in Charlotte right now and over 60 in Clemson. That’s a large area of lights out

Clemson sustained at 33 kts gusting to 55 kts 

21 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Duke outages are skyrocketing. Up over 100k in last hour. Currently 176k and that’s likely to double 

Since I posted this 21 minutes ago. Outages have almost doubled. 350k in the dark and skyrocketing 

Escalating quickly 

First of likely many flash flood emergencies up. Avery county

Duke outages are skyrocketing. Up over 100k in last hour. Currently 176k and that’s likely to double 

82 mph gust in Augusta. Station went down immediately after. Unbelievable 

EDIT: back online and still gusting over hurricane force. That city is going to be unrecognizable in daylight. Lots of pine trees