As Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton roared through the Gulf of Mexico, all three threatened Tampa Bay water systems.Why it ...

Tampa Bay – the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge – could be about to see its worst flooding in over a ...

Live updates for Tuesday have ended. Check tampabay.com for continuing coverage on Wednesday. Tampa Bay area residents should ...

Water in Tampa Bay was returning back to normal levels Thursday morning following the passage of Hurricane Milton, which briefly caused "reverse storm surge" in the bay. National Weather Service ...

“Reverse storm surge” is a familiar, if sometimes unremarked-upon, function of how hurricane winds move seawater as the storms hit land — in fact, it has happened in Tampa Bay before.In the ...

Still, his deputies did try to save residents, but the surge forced their boats and vehicles back. The Tampa Bay area has been extremely lucky over the last century. Since the last major storm scored ...

Oct. 9 as a Category 3 storm and brought storm surge and floods to much of Florida's southwest coast, but not to Tampa Bay. Milton, like Hurricanes Ian and Irma before it, brought a natural ...

Surge is also the amount above what the normal tide is at the time, so a 15-foot (5-meter) storm surge at high tide with 10-foot (3-meter) waves on top of that can level buildings with ease, knock ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene “spared” the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who ...

Oct. 9 as a Category 3 storm and brought storm surge and floods to much of Florida's southwest coast, but not to Tampa Bay. Milton, like Hurricanes Ian and Irma before it, brought a natural phenomenon ...