Hurricane Fran is responsible for 43 deaths in the United States. Many people were killed in North Carolina when hurricane-force winds toppled trees and landed on homes and vehicles. Fran is now a ...

Hurricanes are getting bigger and more dangerous thanks to climate change. The storms also are pushing deeper inland, as seen ...

The North Carolina State Climate Office estimates ... The Neuse in Smithfield crested two feet higher than it did after Hurricane Fran (1996). The Neuse crested in Kingston at a level that was ...

One of North Carolina's most destructive hurricanes, Hurricane Fran in September 1996, blasted the Triangle with winds at near-hurricane strength. It left a landscape littered without trees in ...