The National Park Service has reopened U.S. 441, also known as Newfound Gap Road, which runs through Great Smoky Mountains National Park between Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As on the parkway, commercial vehicles are prohibited on U.S. 441 through the park.

The Charlotte area woke up to increasingly heavy rain and wind as Helene, now a tropical storm centered over central Georgia, moved north. A tropical storm warning and a flash flood warning remained in effect for the Charlotte region,