Tropical Storm Chantal formed from an area of low pressure near Florida and the coast of Georgia early on the Fourth of July.

Tropical Storm Chantal (shahn-TAHL) was the first tropical storm to make landfall and the third named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm will be remembered for bringing tropical ...

It’s the night Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall at Sullivan’s Island. WATCH: Live 5 News special: “Hugo: 30 Years Later” State and local leaders had spent the days leading up to ...

Hurricane Matthew made landfall Saturday morning in the town of McClellanville, 27 years after Hugo slammed into the fishing village. The Live 5 News team looked back at the hurricane that changed the ...

Hurricane Hugo coverage from The State: Sept. 17 - Sept. 24, 1989. Read more stories from The State’s original reporting of Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

Hurricane Hugo is seen in satellite imagery on Sept. 22, 1989, as it makes its way into the Carolinas. When it slammed into South Carolina just minutes before midnight on Sept. 21, ...

Hurricane Hugo's storm surge slammed into McClellanville hardest of all. Read More: Hugo vs Ian: Comparing CAT 4 storms more than 30 years apart.

Hugo gradually strengthened as it moved across the warm waters of the Atlantic and became a hurricane on Sept. 14. By the next day, Hugo strengthened into a rare category 5 hurricane, with maximum ...

CHARLOTTE — After Hurricane Hugo blew through Charlotte, thousands of downed trees covered homes and roadways, 85 percent of households were out of power and much of the city was inaccessible.

Hurricane Hugo, a Category 4 storm with winds of 135 to 140 mph, struck Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, on Sept. 22, 1989, causing significant damage as it moved through North Carolina.

This weekend marks 35 years since Hurricane Hugo battered the South Carolina coast in 1989.In September 1989, Hugo formed from a cluster of storms off the coast of Cape Verde in Africa.

In September of 1989, a NOAA hurricane hunter airplane intercepted Hurricane Hugo as it approached the Caribbean islands, just before Hugo's destructive rampage through the Caribbean and South ...