Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. You can track Helene’s path with CNN’s storm tracker. • A sprawling storm: Helene is one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century,

Florida’s Big Bend region was hammered by Hurricane Helene late Thursday and into Friday morning, as the Category 4 storm made landfall with 140-mile-per-hour winds and brought record-breaking storm surges to the state.