TAMPA, Fla. - While the Bay Area may have been spared a direct hit from Hurricane Helene, the storm flooded many streets.

Storm surge is the deadliest part of any tropical system. It's defined as the abnormal rise of water over and above the predicted tides.

Hundreds of homes were flooded by Hurricane Helene's storm surge in the Tampa Bay metro. Hurricane Helene Leaves Huge Swaths ...

Davis Islands in Tampa was inundated by storm surge as Hurricane Helene swept through the region Thursday night into Friday morning. An estimated five to eight feet of storm surge flooded ...

Helene has weakened to a tropical storm and is moving north across the Southeast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain in ...

Three hurricanes, two of which were major hurricanes, have made landfall in Taylor County in the last 13 months.

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and ...

The Courtney Campbell Causeway reopened on Friday after winds and rain from Hurricane Helene made their way through the Tampa ...

Sand piled along Gulf Boulevard looked like snowbanks. Boats were dragged ashore into downtown Gulfport. And waters submerged ...

We're bringing you the most up-to-date information on Hurricane Helene as the storm nears the Big Bend in Florida.

Helene continues to push deeper into the United States, but early indications are that the scale of damage will be manageable ...

Most of the deaths thus far from Hurricane Helene were in the Tampa Bay area, where many residents did not heed evacuation ...