Hurricane News

Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing.

As Oklahoma City recovers from a tornadoe that ravaged the area, Orange County emergency responders are preparing for Florida's most dangerous severe weather Tuesday.

The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday.

The National Weather Service updated its guidance to include all but the mountains of East Tennessee in an area that has a slight risk of severe thunderstorms through Wednesday morning.

The Medical University of South Carolina is hosting its 14th annual Hurricane Awareness Day on Wednesday, according to The Post and Courier.

In the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, Sen. James Inhofe "rejected comparisons between federal aid for this disaster and the Hurricane Sandy relief package he voted against," the Washington Post reports.

The last serious brush in Virginia was with Irene in 2011, knocking out power to huge sections of Richmond and Hampton Roads, and it breached many of the barrier islands on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $49 million for the New York State Canal Corporation to repair damage related to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.

Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes advises residents to plan and prepare for possible tropical storms this summer and fall.

This frame grab provided by KWTV shows a tornato in Oklahoma City Monday, April 20, 2013.

With hurricane season less than two weeks away, and meteorologists predicting a very active season, all thoughts are on what happened last year, when a tropical cyclone named Sandy raced north from the Caribbean, hung a sharp left off the Mid-Atlantic coast and smashed into New Jersey and New York, killing 147 people, flooding some of the most ... (more)

The violent tornado outbreaks of the past several days, including the killer twister that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday, have shattered the calm of what had been a very quiet tornado season so far.

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its wake.

Florida's emergency management leaders are really creating a complicated and dangerous scenario for their annual hurricane drill this year.

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts are predicting a number of Hurricane experts predict that this year's hurricane season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

A powerful band of storms with strong winds and heavy rain uprooted trees, flooded roads and caused structural damage in southeastern Minnesota.

The 2013 sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. May 25 and ends at 11:59 p.m. May 26.

HAVANA, Cuba -- Regional meteorologists have forecast a very active Atlantic hurricane season in the Caribbean this year.

Manhattan may see deaths from heat rise by as much as 20 percent in the 2020s and 90 percent by the 2080s in a worst-case scenario, a study found.