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Hurricane Helene is expected to strengthen to a Category 4 storm ahead of landfall Thursday along Florida's Big Bend coast.

A catastrophic and deadly storm surge is likely along portions of the Florida Big Bend coast, where inundation could reach as high as 20 feet.

Dr. Ryan Truchelut, of Tallahassee-based WeatherTiger, is tracking and analyzing Helene ahead of landfall on Florida's Big Bend coast.

Atlanta is forecast to take the worst storm beating of a major inland city in the South since the first Bush administration.

Helene was gaining power as it swept across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and could be wielding winds of up to 132 mph and driving 20 feet of water into anxious coastal communities at landfall ...