The team of 82 members will assist in search and rescue operations, including water rescue and K-9 as Tropical Storm Helene ...

It’s a number attached to every hurricane, crucial to emergency response teams and city officials to mobilize preparedness: the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, characterized by five categories.

Tropical Storm Helene formed Tuesday morning in the Caribbean, and the National Hurricane Center forecasts it to move north and strike Florida as a major Category 3 hurricane on Thursday night.

As floodwaters from Hurricane Francine remained beneath their stilted homes, residents of this community a short boat ride ...

Storm shelters in South Mississippi will be opening to provide a safe space for residents evacuating ahead of potential severe weather from Hurricane Francine.

Forecasters are calling for the last two weeks of September — typically one of the busiest phases of any given hurricane season — to reach normal levels of activity. In their two-week outlook ...

But meteorologists have warned residents to not let their guard down when it comes to storms in the Atlantic basin. AccuWeather forecasters are predicting "a major shift in the weather pattern ...

Hurricane forecasters are watching a new potential storm as the Atlantic hurricane season motors past its halfway point. So far, the season hasn't logged an exceptional number of storms, despite ...

As Hurricane Francine approaches the Gulf Coast, its powerful winds are about to start lashing against Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The Category 1 hurricane, which upgraded from a tropical ...

Hurricane Francine has strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 2 as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) begins tracking a new tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean. Francine became ...