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

Community members gathered Thursday evening in Fort Pierce for WPTV's Hurricane Preparedness ... for storm season after surviving historic tornado outbreak Florida residents prep for storm season ...

The single worst tornado outbreak in Western Pennsylvania’s history. 16 tornadoes on our side of the state. Four of them, EF4s and the only ever recorded EF5 in Pennsylvania, ravaged much of ...

Murrow Awards on Thursday. Both of WPTV's awards are tied to our coverage of the deadly tornado outbreak on Oct. 9, 2024. WPTV won in the category of "Breaking News Coverage" for "150 Warnings ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) refers to the cold front as "the deadliest tornado outbreak of the 1980s," with a final death toll of 89 people and reports of over 1,000 people injured.

This means that particular tornado outbreak had a 50 percent False Alarm Ratio. That may sound high, but there are two things to think about here. With Michigan’s limited tornadoes it’s ...

In 1997, an F5 tornado half a mile wide ripped through the small Texas town of Jarrell, killing 27 people, including a family of five. In 2004, a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld ...

Emergency management officials in Franklin County are urging residents to make preparations ahead of hurricane season. The Taylor County community is bracing for a new hurricane season after a ...

Hurricane Ivan lives in history as one of the most ... with its remnants producing a significant tornado outbreak as it tracked north toward Washington, D.C. RELATED: Tropical systems don ...

The Vero Beach Veterans Inc. clubhouse was best remembered for its cookouts, game nights and karaoke parties before a tornado whipped up by Hurricane Milton tore off its roof, ushering in torrents ...

Another multiday, deadly severe weather outbreak spawned over 160 tornadoes in 22 states, along with damaging thunderstorm winds and hail from the Plains to the Midwest, South and East ...