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 ...

As Katrina developed into a hurricane, the massive storm spun off more than 40 tornadoes. There were multiple warnings. As early as Aug. 24, there were watches and warnings. On Aug. 27, there was a ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, leaving behind widespread destruction and changing thousands of lives forever. Douglas Callais remembers the effects ...

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 ...

The major storm made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Sept. 26, 2024, before going on to devastate Appalachia. It was “the deadliest hurricane in the contiguous U.S. since Katrina in 2005 ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast, Greg Allen reflects on ...

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 ...

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 ...