Since the 1950s, when the most reliable hurricane record-keeping began, Texas has never seen a named storm come ashore in ...

What was Tropical Storm Rafael became Hurricane Rafael on Tuesday evening. This makes it the 11th hurricane of the season. It ...

Will Tropical Storm Rafael become a hurricane, and how will it affect the U.S.? The National Hurricane Center is expecting Rafael to become a hurricane either Tuesday or early Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Rafael gained hurricane status Tuesday evening as it churned in the warm Caribbean waters on the way to the Cayman Islands and Cuba before heading for the Gulf of Mexico ...

Louisiana and Mississippi will need to keep an eye on Rafael over the weekend. While a hurricane landfall in these states looks unlikely, some of the hurricane’s moisture will probably become ...

A system in the Caribbean became Tropical Storm Rafael Monday and was expected to become a hurricane later in the week, ...

Hurricane Rafael picked up in intensity and became a Category 3 storm before making landfall in Cuba Wednesday, forecasters said. Rafael's maximum sustained winds reached 115 mph before it made ...

Hurricane Rafael has made landfall in Cuba as a Category ... at 74 mph, the storm becomes a Category 1 hurricane, and continues through Category 5. These classifications help officials predict ...

Cuban farmer Leonardo Abreu clambered over fallen banana plants in a field beside his home, taking stock of the wreckage two ...

At 3 p.m. CST, the center of Hurricane Rafael was located near latitude 24.6 North ... even if the system hasn't become an ...

Hurricane Rafael surged toward Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm. But it will soon weaken in the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters say, and could break apart or not reach the United States at all.

Tropical Storm Rafael slipped by western Jamaica en route to the Cayman Islands and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday evening, federal forecasters said. Rafael, which formed ...