Earlier Monday Milton's winds surged past 175 mph and beyond, exceeding the threshold for Category 5 storm by a significant margin. The storm's wind speeds had more than doubled in 48 hours.

The busy Atlantic hurricane season continued Friday with Isaac strengthening into a category 1 storm in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters said the storm could cause dangerous ...

Hurricane Kirk rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, and is expected to continue to grow – as swaths of the US are still paralyzed by the damage from ...

Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on a potential tropical storm in the Carolinas for Sunday, Sept. 15. For the latest news on the storm, visit USA TODAY's story on the storm system for ...

As of the 8 p.m. Tuesday advisory, Francine is located about 450 miles southwest of New Orleans, with sustained winds of around 75 mph. The storm is moving northeast at about 10 mph, and Francine will ...

WDSU FIRST WARNING SEVEN-DAY Tropical Storm Leslie formed in the Atlantic Wednesday night becoming the 12th named storm of the 2024 hurricane season.\This storm will also stay far out to sea ...

Tropical Storm Kirk, which is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane later this week, will make a northward shift in its path, taking the storm farther away from the U.S. As of Tuesday ...

A storm currently spinning just off the Southeast coast is an example of what meteorologists call a "homegrown" storm. The storm had been thought to become Tropical Storm Helene, but never got ...

A powerful storm system that was not quite a tropical storm dropped historic amounts of rainfall in southeastern North Carolina on Monday, forecasters said, leading to flooded businesses and ...

Milton boasts top sustained wind speeds of 120 mph, the National Hurricane Center said at 7 a.m. Monday, when the storm was about 750 miles west-southwest of Tampa, moving at 8 mph. It is expected ...

On Saturday, Sept. 5, the National Hurricane Center shared on Facebook that Tropical Storm Milton was forecasted to "strengthen and bring the risk of life-threatening impacts" to areas of Florida ...

Far to the east, Florida's Big Bend — where Hurricane Helene came ashore on Thursday night — never even felt tropical storm-strength winds, but it was still hit with a mass of water in 2005 ...