You often hear meteorologists talk about categories of storms. Here's what different storms can do at different categories.

Coastal residents are bracing for an unpredictable hurricane season—with many still cleaning up and rebuilding from last year ...

Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic rainfall to North Carolina, causing flooding and landslides.

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage using a ...

They are Category 1, Category 2, Category 3, Category 4 and Category 5. The larger the storm, the wider its wind field and the greater the potential for damage. A hurricane's wind field also ...

When does a tropical depression become a tropical storm? And when does a tropical storm become a hurricane? What's the ...

Millions of homes across the U.S. face risk of damage from hurricane-force winds and storm-surge flooding this year.

Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke ...

Hurricane season started June 1 and runs through November 30, and Liberty County Emergency Management Agency officials are ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.