Source – Roughly 134,000 customers in Kentucky are without power as more remnants of Tropical Storm Helene roll into the region.
Remnants of Tropical Storm Helene are making their way through the Ohio Valley after making landfall late Thursday along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph, and barreling through Georgia Friday morning.
The weather system is expected to make its way north and impact Louisville and other Kentucky regions. The National Weather Service predicts 3-5 inches of rain by Sunday night, and many schools around the area are closed for the day.
Here’s what we know about Helene and incoming storms. Follow along for live updates.
More than 69,600 customers across LG&E’s service area are without power, 3,100 of whom are in Jefferson County.
The number of households without power in Jefferson County has dropped since LG&E’s last update around noon, when roughly 5,400 Jefferson County customers were reported to be experiencing outages.
As rain and wind continue to slam the Louisville metro, LG&E is reporting more than 50,000 power outages across its service area, including roughly 5,400 in Jefferson County.
The outages join more than 4.4 million customers without power across the Southeast as remnants of Tropical Storm Helene continue to move through the area.
Wind gusts up to 55-60 mph are anticipated to move through the Louisville metro Friday afternoon.
At least eight people have died as Helene unleashed dangerous weather conditions across multiple states in the Southeast, according to authorities and media reports.
Note: Helene made landfall at 11:10 p.m. EDT Thursday night about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida, as Category 4 packing 140-mph winds.
The tropical storm is now centered 105 miles north-northeast of Atlanta, and is tracking quickly northward at 32 mph. Maximum sustained winds are 45 mph.
Numerous flash flood warnings are ongoing, as shown by the green outlines on the radar map below.
Several of the warnings this morning have been high-end flash flood emergencies in western North Carolina, including Asheville, upstate South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, southwest Virginia and northern Georgia, including Atlanta. That means serious flooding impacts have occurred in those areas.
We will continue to keep you updated as soon as we get updates
