Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, ...

NOAA is testing a new storm surge warning system that provides precise geographic alerts to reduce unnecessary evacuations.

Wipha was a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tonkin Monday evening Eastern time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its ...

Tropical Storm Chantal is expected to produce heavy rainfall across portions of the coastal plain of the Carolinas through Monday. Storm total rainfall of 2 to 4 inches, with local amounts up to 6 ...

Wireless Emergency Alerts are limited to flash flood warnings when there is a "threat tag" of considerable or catastrophic.

Federal cuts to the National Weather Service and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could tamper with ...

The National Weather Service is offering water safety tips as crowds begin flocking to nearby lakes for the summer season.

The National Weather Service has various tools for warning the public about dangerous conditions. It can, for example, issue special weather statements and severe thunderstorm warnings.

The National Weather Center indicated Kerrville, Texas, and its surrounding areas could be at risk of flash flooding Thursday, according to the National Weather Service timeline.

The National Weather Service issues several types of flood-related warnings. Do you know what they are and what you should do? A flash flood emergency is issued in very rare situations when there ...

We need to continue to improve the skill of hyper-localized flood forecasts because this is the main way people are dying ...