Hurricane Helene threatens to make landfall as the strongest storm in the United States in over a year. Follow here for the latest.

Helene threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in parts of Florida and damaging winds, rains, and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern US, forecasters said.

Hurricane Helene continued to intensify on Thursday afternoon, strengthening into a Category 3 storm, hours before the unusually large and rapidly intensifying storm was forecast to make landfall in Florida's Big Bend as a monster Category 4 storm.