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15 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 6, 2026.
A tropical storm warning covers Kauai County and a hurricane warning covers Papahanaumokuakea. Governor Josh Green declared a state of emergency Friday and activated the National Guard.
WatchA collapsing Himalayan glacier dumped more than 100 million cubic meters of ice and rock into the Trishuli valley. Three days later, Nepali police are still counting.
WatchThe most powerful tropical cyclone to hit China this year came ashore in Zhejiang with Category 1-equivalent winds. Shanghai grounded about 1,400 flights and forecasters warned of up to 20 inches of rain inland.
The Office of Civil Defense counts 12 dead, eight missing and 11 injured. The national police, counting differently, put the toll at 15.
The storm came ashore near New Orleans, but its worst rainfall landed 800 miles inland — six inches in 12 hours around Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
A rain-triggered landslide in Chongqing's Pengshui County flattened more than 10 buildings, killing at least eight people as crews with excavators, dogs and detectors raced against the threat of a second collapse.
A twister touched down near Interstate 10 and the UTSA campus, damaging an apartment complex, as relentless storms swamped South and Central Texas, prompting mandatory evacuations in Uvalde County and a 59-county disaster declaration.
Forecasters issued a rare Level 4-of-4 flood risk as up to a foot of rain swamped Uvalde and Kerrville, triggering door-to-door evacuations and dozens of water rescues across 59 counties under a state of emergency.
WatchDays of torrential rain from Tropical Storm Maysak triggered a dam failure that inundated the Guangxi capital, killing at least 39 people and forcing about 130,000 residents to flee as rescuers deployed drones and thousands of boats.
Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency after up to a foot of rain fell in under a day, as the National Guard airlifted 202 children and counselors to safety and at least one woman was found dead.
The storm made landfall at typhoon strength in Wakayama before barreling into the Tokyo region, where authorities urged more than 1.6 million people to evacuate amid record rainfall, landslides and power outages.
WatchTwo rare particularly dangerous situation warnings were issued within nine minutes. Multiple tornadoes confirmed in Minnesota as record flooding simultaneously strikes Wisconsin and Michigan.
WatchBack-to-back Kona Low storms dropped up to 46 inches of rain in five days on Maui, forced 236 rescues on Oahu, and set a Honolulu single-day rainfall record that stood since 1951.
WatchAt least 5,500 residents were ordered to flee their homes on Oahu's North Shore after 8 to 12 inches of rain triggered historic flooding, airlifting 72 children from a youth camp and raising alarms about a dam built in 1906.
A second powerful Kona storm in a week dumps two months of rain on northern Oahu in 24 hours, forcing evacuations near the 1906-era Wahiawa Dam while thousands remain stranded and the National Guard is deployed.