The most recent landfalling hurricane in the Cape Fear was Isaias. But it wasn’t retired and will be used again in the 2026 season. Only time will tell how bad this season will be.

On April 12, 1934, the peak recorded wind speeds of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h), the highest ever observed by man at the time. These winds were so powerful that they could easily knock over a person ...

That test, and others, tell the engineers at the university’s Extreme Events Institute how to design and build structures that will withstand the 157 mile-per-hour winds that come with a top ...

The focus was on the coast, and rightfully so, as Camille’s nearly 200 mile-per-hour winds wrought unprecedented devastation while driving north through Mississippi.

Hurricane Milton exploded from a tropical storm to one of the largest hurricanes ever with winds surpassing 180 miles per hour in just a matter of hours this week — leading to calls for a new ...

Two other storms, Camille in 1969 and Michael in 2018 also landed on the Gulf Coast as Category 5 hurricanes. Each had sustained wind speeds of 170 mile per hour and 161 miles per hour respectively.

NOAA Weather Service Director Ken Grant said the hurricane’s winds are currently traveling at 170 miles per hour and moving east at 5 miles per hour. “It’s one of the strongest storms we ...

RICHMOND, Va. — In the wake of Hurricane Helene and the massive flooding that hit western North Carolina, many in Virginia are reminded of a similar event 55 years ago: Hurricane Camille. On ...

Hurricane Carla caused damage across the entire 400-mile Texas coast, depositing thousands of snakes into towns. ... When it came ashore, Carla’s winds clocked at 170 miles per hour.

AUSTIN, Texas — Hurricane Carla, in 1961, was so big that it filled the Gulf of Mexico before it struck just 175 miles from Austin, coming ashore at Port O’Connor, south of Galveston. The ...