A typhoon is looming. However, hopefully we are leaving the city.
You need a comma after however: it's an adverbial that makes a meaning connection between sentences and cuases a short pause. Using a comma after hopefully is optionalless common: "hopefully the road should be finished by next year"
hopefully the road should be finished by next year
Source: Oxford Dictionaries.
Also here's a search in Google Books. As you see in most cases hopefully isn't followed by a comma.