This live coverage has ended. Francine was downgraded to a tropical storm late Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said in an update at 10 p.m. local time, after first making landfall on the ...

Thanks to extremely warm Gulf waters, Hurricane Francine rapidly intensified into a Category 2 storm Wednesday before making landfall at about 5 p.m. When the storm made landfall, the storm was ...

Subtropical Storm Patty formed in the North Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the 16th named storm of this year’s Atlantic ...

Tropical Storm Francine formed Monday, Sept. 9 in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane before it makes landfall. Meanwhile, there are two other systems out in the Atlantic with ...

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Hurricane Francine barreled early Wednesday toward Louisiana and is expected to make landfall in coming hours as forecasters raised threats of potentially deadly storm surge, widespread flooding ...

Francine drew fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 2 storm, with winds of 96 to 110 mph (155 to 175 kph), the National Hurricane Center said.

MORGAN CITY, Louisiana -- Hurricane Francine weakened to a tropical storm by after making landfall Louisiana on Wednesday evening as a Category 2 storm that forecasters warned could bring deadly ...

The worst of Hurricane Francine has not made it to most of the area in the storm's path, the National Weather Service office in New Orleans said. "NO ONE is out of the woods yet," the office said ...