On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Lt. Col. Sean Cross, chief of safety for the 403rd Wing of the Hurricane Hunters, is one of the few pilots who has been inside Hurricane Katrina. Keesler Airforce Base in Biloxi, ...

Trees down. Blocked roads. Damaged homes. Boil-water alerts. No electricity for days. Spotty phone service. Stores closed. Scarce food. Rations on gasoline. Fights – some deadly – as tensions boil ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Hurricane Katrina set a historical precedent for hurricanes that achieve the frightening caliber of Category 5 intensity. Aug. 29 this year marks the 20 years since one of ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -Joy and pain often go hand in hand in New Orleans. Both were on display Friday during a pair of second line parades in the Lower Ninth Ward that celebrated survival while also ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

The major storm made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Sept. 26, 2024, before going on to devastate Appalachia.