Neil Frank, a former head of the National Hurricane Center credited with working to increase the country’s readiness for major storms, has died. He was 94.

Dr. Frank was part of our KHOU 11 family for more than two decades. He was a pioneer in hurricane forecasting.

Neil L. Frank succeeded the retired Robert Simpson as director of the National Hurricane Center in 1974. During his tenure, Frank raised awareness of the hurricane problem, especially along the U.S.

For the first time in its 70 years of existence, the National Hurricane Center incorporated AI weather model guidance in its ...

The next named storm is Francine. No tropical cyclone activity is expected, but experts were monitoring 3 tropical waves in Atlantic ...

Read full article: The Caribbean could be our final hot spot for this hurricane season ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Thursday tagged a tropical wave moving west through the Atlantic ...

Colorado State University forecasters predicted activity will pick up over the next couple of weeks. Tropical Storm Gabrielle is expected to become a hurricane later this weekend or early next week.

A family in Cuba salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images) After ...

Category 4 Hurricane Gabrielle is moving into the North Atlantic, prompting a hurricane watch for the Azores. Swells from Gabrielle are expected to cause life-threatening surf and rip currents along ...

Orlando FL – As of 5 p.m., recon aircraft managed to sample wind speeds inside Gabrielle above 74 mph, warranting the upgrade to hurricane status by the National Hurricane Center. Central pressure ...

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in south-western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon, packing winds of 185 mph. It was the strongest hurricane to make landfall on the island since ...

Should another weather system develop into a tropical storm, the system would be named Melissa. The USA TODAY Network in Florida provides daily tropics watch reports during hurricane season (June ...