Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 season. To this day, it is the strongest and only category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast. Hazel first ...

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said there was an increasing risk of a life-threatening storm surge ...

The Category 5 storm approaching Florida is the most powerful type of hurricane. On Monday, Hurricane Milton quickly ...

Hazel remains the strongest hurricane to make landfall in North Carolina. The storm came ashore close to the border with South Carolina, whipping the coast with winds as high as 150 mph and a ...

The North Carolina State Climate Office estimates that Hurricane Matthew is the fifth-deadliest and fourth-costliest North Carolina tropical cyclone on record.

The Grand Strand has been hit by a couple of major storms this fall. Here’s what the rest of hurricane season has in store.

Extensive damage to electricity lines and poles can result in dayslong power outages. Hurricane Hazel in 1954 claimed 81 ...

Over the years, Cropper, who’s affectionately known as “Hurricane Hazel,” learned how to crack and clear a crab of meat in record-breaking time. Hazel Cropper is a world champion crab picker ...

At the time, it had been more than 30 years since the destruction from Hurricane Hazel, and now came a new monster to the ...

All three were September storms. Though the state has been affected by hurricanes in other months — Hurricane Hazel, which set benchmarks that went unchallenged for decades, struck in October ...

In October 1954, Hurricane Hazel had already killed as many as 1,000 people in the Caribbean when it made landfall at the border of North and South Carolina. It wiped the seaside resort ...