Marine Tropical Storm · Atlantic South

Maximum sustained winds over the nearshore waters off Palm Beach County were in the 35 to 40 knot range. A peak wind gust of 58 knots / 67 mph was recorded at the Juno Beach Pier mesonet station, with a peak wind gust of 53 knots / 61 at the Lake Worth Pier mesonet station.

The center of Hurricane Helene passed about 200 miles west of Naples as a Category 3 hurricane moving N-NE over the eastern Gulf of Mexico around midday on Thursday, September 26th, then made landfall later that evening in the Florida Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane. The large wind field around Helene and associated outer bands brought tropical storm force winds and gusts to the immediate Atlantic and Biscayne Bay coasts as well as Lake Okeechobee.