CHARLOTTE (PINPOINT WEATHER) - Thursday is a Pinpoint Weather Alert day as Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday night along the Florida panhandle. Rain and winds start Thursday morning and don’t let up until Friday afternoon. Thursday will be active as this Pinpoint Weather Alert Day brings widespread rain and isolated downpours. Winds will pick up out of the east-southeast and gusts as fast as 20 miles per hour at times. We can see up to 40 mile-per-hour wind gusts through our overnight hours heading into Friday. TRACKING THE TROPICS | Track storms and see the latest satellite imagery from the Tropics on MyFOX8.com. We have a number of alerts, watches, and warnings over the Queen City all due to the impacts we’ll see from Helene. A Marginal Risk for Severe Weather sits over much of our mountain counties and uptown while a Slight Risk for Severe Weather sits over our South Carolina Counties. When it comes to our Warnings, We’ll have a Tropical Storm Warning in effect for Mecklenburg County, Union County, and points west and south of Uptown. We’ll also hold on to a Flood Watch for our counties west of I-77 as the foothills and higher elevations of North Carolina can see countless rounds of heavy rain. This will all be ahead of the impacts Helene will bring overnight. Temperatures will be in the 70s on Thursday before winds continue to pick up overnight. Helene will likely intensify into a Category 4 storm before making landfall near Tallahassee, FL. As the storm tracks north through the State of Georgia it will likely maintain Tropical Storm Force Winds through northern Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Overnight will be a soaker and host significant winds topping out at 40 miles per hour and gusting close to 60 miles per hour at times. We can see life-threatening Flash Floods, potential landslides in our mountains, and strong winds leading to flying debris, downed trees, and spotty power outages. Best practices tonight would be downloading the Pinpoint Weather App and Keep Alerts on your volume up in case of any overnight warnings. Late Friday morning will dry out as winds linger and highs aim for the upper 70s and low 80s. Saturday will dry out a bit with partly cloudy skies and highs near 80 to kick off the weekend. We’ll keep an eye on another round of wet weather that can roll in Sunday into Monday to kick off early next week.