HURRICANE SEASON

Environmental factors become more favorable for tropical development during this time of year.

With a storm headed for Florida, and hurricane season about to hit it's peak, Red Cross volunteers are ready to be deployed. KSAT got to sit in on a training, watched volunteers check their supplies, and went to the warehouse to see the pallets all loaded up and ready.

To help Texans prepare for weather events like hurricanes and violent spring storms, the state is offering a sales tax holiday on essential items like generators, flashlights and first aid kits.

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

Just in time for spring storm season, Texans can buy batteries, phone chargers, some ice chests and more tax free during the state’s emergency preparation supplies sales tax holiday.

For the second year in a row, we’ve exhausted the list of names allocated for the Atlantic hurricane season.

Whether you're weathering a tropical system or just your typical severe thunderstorm, there are steps you can take now to ensure you’re ready for anything.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

It’s great that summer is here, but that means another major season has arrived, too: Hurricane season.

To help prepare for the start of hurricane season, take this quiz on how to best prepare, should a hurricane draw near.

Hurricane season is upon us. And really, as is the case with any major storm, winds and heavy rainfall have the power to create some pretty massive power outages. Are you, or would you, consider yourself stocked up at home, in the event of an emergency? Take the quiz below to find out. All of the checklist items are listed on ready.gov as what you’ll need in your basic disaster supplies kit, as well as some additional emergency supplies that the website recommended.

With hurricane season in its peak, here's a look at which decades have seen the most serious hurricane activity over the past 100 years.