Hurricane (Typhoon) — Eastern Hamilton, Florida

2024-09-26 to 2024-09-27 · Eastern Hamilton, Florida

Event narrative

As of early AM on the 27th, the entire county was reported without power (over 7,000 customers). Numerous trees and power lines were reported across the county. Two large trees snapped and fell through a home causing complete destruction of the home along NW 104th Pl. A metal cell phone was bent along NW HWY 129. In Jasper, the 2nd floor of a brick building had the roof and two walls collapse and another brick building had its roof completely blown off. Metal roofs were peeled off of the Hamilton EOC carport and a business along 2nd Ave SE.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a category 4 with peak winds of near 140 mph in the Florida Big

Bend just east of the Aucilla River Entrance in Taylor County, late Thursday evening September 26,

2024. Helene's main impact to southeast Georgia and northeast Florida was wind damage as it

tracked quickly north-northeast. The very powerful hurricane and the forward motion produced a

wide swath of wind damage across the forecast area with peak wind gusts 55 to 75 mph across the

eastern half of the area, and western zones up to 75 to 100 mph from the Suwannee Valley area

northward through interior southeast GA. The max wind gust of 100 mph was measured at the Alma

GA ASOS in the early morning hours of Friday September 27th. Given the strength of these winds,

widespread power outages, structure damage and downed or uprooted trees occurred across inland

southeast GA and portions of northeast FL. At least 1 tornado occurred, which was in Coffee county.

Maximum rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches were located over western half of the area.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1217494. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.