What impacts Sumter County can expect from Hurricane Helene

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Hurricane Helene will continue to strengthen and is expected to bring rounds of heavy rain, gusty winds up to 55 mph and a few tornadoes that could affect Sumter County.

As of right now the initial arrival of showers and storms from Helene will arrive into Thursday afternoon with the worst impacts being late overnight into early Friday morning!

By the time people are settling into a later Friday morning commute, more impacts could already be passed.

With isolated wind gusts that could be over 55mph into Friday and rainfall rates around 2 inches, this is a system we need to monitor closely!

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