The severe weather system is expected to intensify rapidly in the coming days as it approaches the mainland U.S.

Hurricane Rafael formed in the northwestern Caribbean near the Cayman Islands on its way to making landfall in Cuba.

Editor's Note: A live Hurricane Milton tracker is playing ... vulnerable to storm surge. Helene came ashore about 150 miles ...

The system tracked to the south in the final hours and made landfall late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm in Siesta Key, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Tampa. Damage was widespread ...

Hurricane Milton was downgraded to Category 3 storm Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph as it moved closer to landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast, which is still reeling from Helene.

The storm lost power as it hit land, downgrading from the Category 5 rating it reached as it traveled across the ocean with 180 mph winds. More than two million households across Florida lost ...

For the latest news on Hurricane Milton, visit USA TODAY's hurricane tracker for Thursday ... afternoon, the storm was located about 520 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, with maximum sustained ...

Hurricane Milton churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida on Tuesday as an “extremely dangerous” storm that could ... Tuesday heading north out of Tampa on Interstate 75 as people ...

It weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved across the state early Thursday. You can watch the live stream tracker of the storm ... about 70 miles south of Tampa.

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

Deaths, power outages, and billions in destruction; the damage of Hurricane Milton is still unfolding, but is it one of the worst this century? Alicja Hagopian and Julia Musto report ...

Hurricane Milton was downgraded to Category 3 storm ... Tampa area late Wednesday or in the early morning hours of Thursday and maintain hurricane status as it moves east-northeast across central ...