Storm surge is the deadliest part of any tropical system. It's defined as the abnormal rise of water over and above the predicted tides.

Helene has weakened to a tropical storm and is moving north across the Southeast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain in ...

Hurricane Helene blasted not just water, but huge amounts of sand on to city streets in the heart of the St. Petersburg-Tampa ...

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and ...

Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, with 140 mph winds, the National ...

Helene continues to push deeper into the United States, but early indications are that the scale of damage will be manageable ...

Most of the deaths thus far from Hurricane Helene were in the Tampa Bay area, where many residents did not heed evacuation ...

The most recent major hurricanes to hit the U.S. left hundreds of people dead and caused billions of dollars worth of damage.

"The water was coming through the vents, through the air-conditioning ducts, every which way you can imagine." ...

Patients and caregivers were seeking shelter on a TN hospital’s roof after flooding caused by Helene drove them from the ...

Two stories unfolded across Tampa Bay in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s damage Friday. Some transportation and health ...

Emergency workers in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere rescued hundreds of people from boats, their homes and their cars as ...