NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Forecasters rarely use language this stark. But on August 28, 2005, the National Weather Service’s New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued one of the most ominous hurricane ...

Hurricanes are some of nature’s largest and most ferocious storms. Only a small handful of these sprawling systems ever reach Category 5 intensity. Many of these scale-topping hurricanes remained out ...

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Douglas Callais remembers the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how he and the people of New Orleans bonded ...

Twenty years ago this week, NPR reported on one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in American history. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) MARY LANDRIEU: It is gorgeous. It's sunny. And it is ...

“The loss of wetlands didn’t cause Katrina, but it stripped away the natural buffer that should have slowed the surge.” The lessons that came out of Hurricane Katrina are manifold. The storm exposed ...

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 ...

Forty years before Katrina, Hurricane Betsy was the most recent modern-era flood in New Orleans. On Sept. 9, 1965, 60 years ago tonight, Betsy roared ashore in southeast Louisiana at Category 4 ...