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News Articles: tropical storm

A person fishes along the boardwalk as waves crash during a power outage in Havana, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

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Tropical Storm Oscar heads toward the Bahamas after leaving at least 6 dead in Cuba

Tropical Storm Oscar was heading toward the Bahamas late Monday after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the central and southeastern Bahamas.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The impacts of Hurricane Helene are expected to be felt far inland, as shown by this map of flash flooding risks.

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Helene reaches hurricane strength with no signs of slowing as it approaches Florida

Helene is forecast to intensify rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Florida on Thursday. Residents are urged to make preparations — and in many counties, evacuate — before then.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A park in Savannah's Bingville neighborhood sits flooded on Aug. 7, 2024, from Tropical Storm Debby.

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Flood risk not always reflected in FEMA flood maps

The decision of whether or not to buy flood insurance is real for residents in zones where FEMA doesn’t require flood insurance to secure a loan.

September 24, 2024
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Isaiah Brown comforts his younger brother Malachi after their power went down in the Polk Street neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana.

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Francine weakens as it moves inland after winds cause widespread blackouts

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as Tropical Storm Francine moved inland.

September 12, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell,
  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • and 1 more
Keon Johnson leaves his house on his way to work down a street that flooded on Monday from Tropical Storm Debby and still hasn't drained, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Pooler, Ga.

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Tropical rains flood homes in an inland Georgia neighborhood for the second time since 2016

Residents of one Georgia neighborhood are cleaning up homes flooded by tropical weather for the second time in eight years. Tappan Zee Drive is located in suburban Pooler, west of Savannah and about 30 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

August 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press
From left, Matthew Blowers and Patrick Brafford prepare to secure a lifeguard tower in preparation of potential storm at Clearwater Beach on Saturday, in Clearwater, Fla.

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Tropical Storm Debby moving through Gulf toward Florida with hurricane warnings

A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby north of Cuba on Saturday and was predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico.

August 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Roger Heim (right) and Terry Smith (second from right), both of Valrico, Fla., fill sandbags in preparation for the weekend storm at the Edward Medard Conservation Park in Plant City, Fla.

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Tropical Storm Debby is approaching Florida

Tropical storm warnings and a hurricane watch were issued for the west coast of Florida and the panhandle as Debby crossed the Gulf of Mexico. Heavy rains are expected across the Southeast.

August 04, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
Graphic text reading "hurricane registry" on the top line and "for those with functional, access, or medical needs" on the bottom line. A hurricane symbol is between the words "hurricane" and "registry."

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Georgia public health officials push hurricane evacuation assistance program for at-need residents

Applications close 72 hours before the projected arrival of tropical-storm-force winds associated with a given storm.

July 05, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
A rainbow appears behind a flooded neighborhood in Jamaica Beach, Texas, on Thursday.

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Heat and snowfall, rain and wildfires. It’s a week of extreme weather in the U.S

As New England sweated through a record heat wave, Montana got rare late-June snow. Firefighters are battling wildfires out West, while forecasters eye another possible tropical storm in the Atlantic.

June 20, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A graphic from the National Hurricane Center shows Alberto's projected path into Mexico and the tropical storm warning spanning Texas' Gulf Coast as a result.

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Tropical Storm Alberto, the first of the season, drenches Texas en route to Mexico

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived. Tropical Storm Alberto is heading west towards Mexico, bringing heavy rains, coastal flooding and possible hurricanes to Texas.

June 19, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Georgia's coast is still under a Hurricane Warning, with tropical storm-force winds extending outward from the eye of the storm. By late evening hours, most of the wind will have shifted northward to South Carolina as Idalia cruises up East Coast and out into the Atlantic Ocean toward Bermuda. Many counties in Georgia are under Flash Flood Warnings.

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UPDATES: Hurricane Idalia's Aftermath and Georgia impact

Tropical Storm watches and areas of flash and urban flooding, some of which may be locally significant, are expected across Southern Georgia through Wednesday, spreading into portions of the eastern Carolinas Wednesday into Thursday.

August 29, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
tractor in peanut field

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'It's going to have impacts': How Georgia farmers should brace for Idalia

The most recent hurricane to make landfall in Georgia was Hurricane Michael in October 2018. Farms in Georgia lost billions of dollars after top crops were ravaged by the storm. 

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Tropical Storm Idalia is currently forecast to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane along the Florida Big Bend on the morning of August 30, 2023. Meteorologists expect it will then weaken to a Category 1 hurricane as the center moves into far southeast Georgia later that evening.

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Idalia is coming. Here's how the storm might impact Georgia

Tropical Storm Idalia is currently forecast to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane along the Florida Big Bend on Wednesday morning before moving across South Georgia.

August 28, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
Medano Beach, at Los Cabos resort in Mexico's Baja California state, is seen  before the arrival of Hurricane Hilary  on Friday.

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  • Weather

Hurricane Hilary prompts flood watch from Mexico to north of Los Angeles

Hurricane Hilary continues her march toward Baja California, and people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are getting ready for projected heavy rains and flooding.

August 19, 2023
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By:
  • Tilda Wilson,
  • Erik Anderson,
  • and 1 more
This 1:10 p.m. EDT Friday satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Hilary (right) off Mexico's Pacific coast.

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  • Weather

Hilary could be the first tropical storm to hit California in more than 80 years

Hurricane Hilary will make landfall in Baja California this weekend before weakening to a tropical storm. But torrential rain could cause dangerous flooding in Southern California and inland.

August 18, 2023
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  • Dustin Jones
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