COLUMBUS, Ohio — Central Ohio continued to see the remnants of Helene on Saturday as it made its way through the region.
More rain fell Saturday afternoon, but the region did not see strong winds like on Friday.
The showers will also linger into Sunday.
Helene made landfall in Florida Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane. While it weakened since making landfall, the storm caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S.
Helene quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.
The storm's remnants brought several watches and advisories for central Ohio, as well as thunderstorm and tornado warnings at times in the southern part of the state on Friday. These storms left numerous people in the dark and brought flooding and wind damage to the region.
Thousands were without power due to the storms. At one point Friday afternoon, more than 80,000 AEP Ohio customers were without power. Click here to see the full outage map from AEP Ohio.
Parts of Pike and Scioto counties were under a Flood Warning Saturday as the rain made its way through those areas, but the alerts and the flooding threat have since decreased and gone away for now.
Additional minor flooding of the hardest hit areas may be possible through the weekend, as another 0.5 to 1.5+ inches of rainfall is likely to fall around the region. Flooding potential should be more isolated than on Friday.
Make sure you stay up to date on the latest with us here at 10TV and remember to never drive through a flooded roadway, as it takes as little as six inches of moving water to sweep vehicles off the road.
