Hurricane Helene was one of three major hurricanes of the active 1988 Atlantic hurricane season. The twelfth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the season, Helene developed on September 19 from a tropical wave which was also associated with an area of deeply-organized convection that moved off the coast of Africa of September 15. After initially moving eastward, the storm turned northward and strengthened. Helene did not affect land nor did i...
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