The NWS notified the WNC area at 11:21 a.m. that Helene has passed most of the area, but significant impacts including serious flooding continue. The storm is now located about 80 miles west-southwest of Asheville, centered over the Smoky Mountains and moving north at 32 mph.

The Charlotte area woke up to increasingly heavy rain and wind as Helene, now a tropical storm centered over central Georgia, moved north. A tropical storm warning and a flash flood warning remained in effect for the Charlotte region,

After making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Helene weakened to a tropical storm as it entered Georgia.