HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Many residents who are new to southeast Texas tell Eyewitness News they're nervous about Hurricane Laura's impact while long-time residents fear a repeat of previous disasters ...

JOHNSON’S BAYOU, La. (WRBL) — Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Rita made landfall in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. Rita is the strongest storm ever recorded in the ...

Hurricane Rita weakened slightly this morning with top winds now at 135 mph, but it still projected to make landfall as a Category 3 or Category 4 storm early Saturday, bringing high winds, driving ...

Gov. Rick Perry today asked President Bush to designate the two consecutive hurricanes as one natural disaster for administrative and funding. He said such a designation would allow Texas to be ...

September is the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. This is because wind shear, the change of speed and/or direction of the wind with height, is weaker, and the ocean waters are extremely warm.

Having passed the 20th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastating our state and in the last month of what has been a quiet hurricane season, I want to share our state’s recent hurricane ...