when did helene hit

Hurricane Helene “hit” — meaning it made landfall in Florida — late on September 26, 2024, near the Big Bend region around Perry, Florida.

Quick timing facts

• Helene became a named tropical storm on September 24, 2024.

• It rapidly strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on September 26, 2024.

• It made landfall at peak strength in Florida’s Big Bend late on September 26, 2024 (around 11 p.m. local time / roughly 3:10 UTC on September 27).

• The storm then moved inland overnight into September 27, bringing destructive wind and catastrophic flooding into Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the southern Appalachians.

If you meant “hit” somewhere else

People online also use “when did Helene hit” to talk about:

• When it started affecting the Caribbean and Gulf: impacts began as it organized in the western Caribbean around September 23–24, 2024.

• When it hit the Appalachians hardest: life‑threatening flooding and major damage unfolded on September 27, 2024, especially in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

If you tell me the specific place you care about (city or state), I can narrow that down to the approximate time it hit there.