Heavy Rain and Strong Winds Expected in Indiana
Heavy Rain and Strong Winds Expected in Indiana from Hurricane Helene
Source: X / @NWS
INDIANAPOLIS — The remnants of Hurricane Helene are expected to move across Indiana late Thursday and Friday, bringing several inches of rain and gusty winds.
As of Thursday morning, Helene is a category two hurricane forecasted to land on Florida’s Gulf Coast Thursday night.
“The storm is going to proceed pretty quickly inland and begin interacting with another area of low pressure off to our southwest,” said Joseph Nield from the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. The remnant center of the storm will move up into the lower Ohio Valley and bring us some beneficial rainfall.
Hoosiers can expect widespread rainfall of 1-2 inches and wind gusts of up to 50-55 miles per hour.
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“We are going to see precipitation overspread the area late tonight and overspread all of Central Indiana during the day on Friday,” Nield added. “The heaviest of that rainfall will likely be across the southern half of the area.”
The latest update from the National Hurricane Center clocks the storm as a Category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. It’s about 320 miles southwest of Tampa, moving towards an expected landfall in the Big Bend area later tonight.
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