Major Hurricane Helene

[dseagull]

The eastern eyewall is backbulding and tightening towards a sustained Western wall.  There were 4 or 5 mesovortices at one point when the wobble stopped and the eye closed back up.  Absolutely insane approach dynamics.  Thank God the coastal population is minimal here. 

[Random Chaos]

Seeing a large cluster of 180+mph winds (highest 185mph) at 5kft on the east side of the eye. Wow.

[csnavywx]

Still intense lightning activity in the western eyewall. Going to be a close shave for TLH.

[SchaumburgStormer]

1 minute ago, Random Chaos said:

Seeing a large cluster of 180+mph winds (highest 185mph) at 5kft on the east side of the eye. Wow.

Perry going to get absolutely rocked. 

[Floydbuster]

Wow, Keaton Beach is just about under the northeast eyewall.

[Radtechwxman]

Think we see winds come up again before landfall or it holds steady?

[1234snow]

Radar velocities are still increasing.

[DDweatherman]

Judging by how intense this is coming in, not sure how much of Perry will be left on the other side of this one.. eastern parts of Tallahassee are also going to see some 100-120+ gusts it appears if they’re clipped by that N/NW eyewall. 

[SchaumburgStormer]

Recon has to be getting the shit kicked out of them on the path they are on through the N eyewall. 

[Allsnow]

 

[schoeppeya]

2 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Recon has to be getting the shit kicked out of them on the path they are on through the N eyewall. 

That first plane earlier tried and decided thanks but no thanks and went home. 

[kvegas-wx]

939 MB and 140 from NHC.  Looks to be the last update before landfall.

[dseagull]

Perry should be getting raked at max very soon.  

[SchaumburgStormer]

Going to be tough for Tallahassee to miss that huge western eyewall. 

[cptcatz]

2 minutes ago, schoeppeya said:

That first plane earlier tried and decided thanks but no thanks and went home. 

I believe Andy Hazelton was on that flight.  If so, he's a big tweeter so we should get a nice recap of what it was like.

[RU848789]

5 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

 

 

Hey - just curious how you get the Twitter post to embed on this site?  Pasting the URL below, hasn't been working for me.  TIA.

https://x.com/ericfisher/status/1839481161082392823?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1839481161082392823|twgr^d62ae3ef18d077e4023272872f8c21d9d1630f69|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanwx.com%2Fbb%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fericfisher%2Fstatus%2F1839481161082392823

[WxWatcher007]

Power out. Big gusts starting. 

[SchaumburgStormer]

Looks like recon did 1 final eye punch. 

[dan11295]

1 minute ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Going to be tough for Tallahassee to miss that huge western eyewall. 

Need to see if Helene resumes a more NNE movement for now once about to go inland.

[pazzo83]

Tallahassee is not lookin good

[KPITSnow]

Just now, pazzo83 said:

Tallahassee is not lookin good

Yeah. Its wobbling left right at the wrong tIme for them. 

[Buddy1987]

Beginning to genuinely get concerned for @WxWatcher007 stay safe brother. It’s gonna be absolute hell for a good while.

[Cincy12]

 

 

[Cincy12]

Just now, Cincy12 said:

 

 

Live footage it appears from Perry Florida 

[Hoth]

2 minutes ago, Buddy1987 said:

Beginning to genuinely get concerned for @WxWatcher007 stay safe brother. It’s gonna be absolute hell for a good while.

He's a pro. I'm sure he's well situated.

[KPITSnow]

Oh man, Chad Meyers on CNN just said Tallahassee isn’t getting bullseyed. They might be on the west side of the eyewall but I don’t think you should be giving any sort of safety signal. 
 

it looks like they are getting smashed at least by the western eyewall

[Radtechwxman]

1 minute ago, KPITSnow said:

Oh man, Chad Meyers on CNN just said Tallahassee isn’t getting bullseyed. They might be on the east side of the eyewall but I don’t think you should be giving any sort of safety signal. 
 

it looks like they are getting smashed at least by the western eyewall

East side? No way. West side yes

[KPITSnow]

Just now, Radtechwxman said:

East side? No way. West side yes

I edited 

[WxWatcher007]

 

[Windspeed]

Perry is definitely getting the worst RF quadrant even if a more northerly track has commenced. The NE and E segments of the eyewall are too close to them now to be avoided.