Helene was a long-lived Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed in the extreme southeastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean, peaking as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale as it traversed the central Atlantic.
Helene was a long-lived Cape Verde-type hurricane. It formed in the extreme southeastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean. As it as it crossed the central Atlantic, it peaked as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.