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 ...

Katrina's origins was a tropical wave that traversed off the Coast of Africa on August 11th. It moved its way through the Leeward Islands and merged with a previous Tropical Depression named T.D Ten ...

There have been some truly devastating hurricanes over the years. These, however, were the most damaging hurricanes of all time.

BILOXI, Miss. -- Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina hit Category 5 status in the Gulf of Mexico. He was ...

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 ...

TUPELO — This weekend marks the day two decades ago south Mississippi was forever changed. Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and the scars of its deadly ...

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 ...