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9/26/2024
WT Staff
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September 26, 2024 1123 am PDT
Florida Gulf coast bracing for impact of Hurricane Helene tonight
Clear and sunny at Visalia Municipal Airport this hour, as reported by NWS Hanford. On the Gulf of Mexico coast, Florida braces for impact by Hurricane Helene tonight, southeast states expecting life threatening impacts including storm surge, river flooding, wind shear and tornadoes.
As of the latest local statement issued for Florida Gulf Coast by the National Weather Center, Hurricane Helene was located around 250 miles southwest of Tampa, across the southeast Gulf of Mexico as of 9 am PDT. Helene will continue to strengthen while moving north-northeast across the Gulf of Mexico today and is forecast to make landfall as a major hurricane along the Florida Big Bend coast late this evening.
No impacts expected for California.
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges in California
Coastal and interior streamflows continue to run largely normal to much above seasonal normal in the coastal and interior watersheds with a few lower water levels creeping into San Diego watershed in the last few days. Colorado River watershed carries on with record low flow levels released in the Alamo River near Niland, and New River near Westmoreland. The drought map is very sparsely populated, a few small areas rated below normal this day include the Colorado River channel along the southeast border, a wee bit of the south coast of Humboldt County in the north coastal watershed region 1, a chunk of surface area rated below normal in Central Valley Region 5 watershed at east Shasta and west edge of Lassen County. Los Angeles County has a below normal rating.
See the brown tags on the map to the right for low flow levels in the 1st percentile range, some of the lowest levels recorded on this date in eighty-one years of monitoring New River near Westmoreland and 63 years monitoring the Alamo River near Niland. No extreme high flows or flood events are recorded in the monitoring network as of this report.
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