People in the Tampa Bay area are fearing a once-in-century direct hit from Hurricane Milton. To discuss how the region is ...

The National Hurricane Center expects Milton will be a Category 3 storm, with wind speeds of at least 111 mph, when it ...

It has been more than 100 years since Florida's Tampa Bay area – a region especially vulnerable to storm surge and flooding – ...

Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic ...

With reverse storm surge, especially in larger storms, the opposite happens, explained AccuWeather meteorologist Paul ...

As Hurricane Milton intensified on its path toward Florida's Gulf Coast, the strength of the system increased the severity of ...

Hurricane Milton is weakening slightly but remains a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa ...

StormTeam 5 meteorologist Kelly Ann Cicalese explains how a powerful hurricane like Milton creates a bubble of water with low ...

Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall in Tampa on Wednesday night. On Tuesday, it reached Category 5 hurricane status.

Granted, Hurricane Ike, that Mills described, was 20 feet of storm surge that went in 25 miles. A hurricane that hit Tampa in 1848 did bring 15 feet of storm surge and all of downtown had water.

Still, his deputies did try to save residents, but the surge forced their boats and vehicles back. The Tampa Bay area has been extremely lucky over the last century. Since the last major storm ...