CHARLOTTE, N.C. — September 22, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo making landfall just north of Charleston, South Carolina. The monster storm had formed over the eastern Atlantic near ...

Twelve days after a tropical depression formed in the Atlantic off of the coast of West Africa, south of the Cape Verde Islands, what grew to be Hurricane Hugo plowed through the Carolinas, changing ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Today marks 36 years since Hurricane Hugo blasted the Carolinas. Hugo was one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history, and at the time the most costly ...

Homes were dark, businesses shut down, and Charlotte was ground to a halt as the storm devastated the Carolinas. Duke Energy’s Robert Combs remembers vividly how he couldn’t even make it to the city ...

Although the worst of Hugo affected one of the more sparsely populated reaches of the South Carolina coast, it was necessary for residents in a much larger area to assess and respond to the threat.

Hurricane season begins Monday, and WMBF News meteorologists are preparing viewers with a special focused on storm ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - 36 years ago, Hurricane Hugo made landfall off the coast of South Carolina, becoming one of the deadliest and most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the state. On the Wednesday ...

Even excluding effects in the Caribbean, Hugo was the most damaging hurricane in U.S. history prior to Hurricane Andrew. The remarkable aspect of Hugo was the size of the area severely affected by the ...