However, much of Florida, including the Tampa Bay region, continued to be under a storm surge warning early Friday morning.

In a special update from the National Hurricane Center, Helene made landfall just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River.

More than 2 million customers are waking up without power across the South Friday morning in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Nearly 1.2 million people without power. Record coastal flooding from Tampa to the Big Bend. Hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Hurricane Helene, a massive, destructive Category 4 hurricane causing catastrophic storm surge, made landfall late Thursday ...

Hurricane Helene intensified into a major Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph making landfall Thursday night bringing ...

Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall in Florida Thursday evening but is already impacting the Tampa Bay area.

In Clearwater, one of the hardest-hit regions, water levels surged to a record 8.6 feet, eclipsing the previous high of 6.8 ...

Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in the Big Bend region of Florida. The storm passed the Tampa Bay area and left ...

The storm made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned the enormous system could create ...

Helene -- which weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Friday morning -- made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on ...

Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the ...