There's more to a storm than just its wind speed category, researchers say. Wind, rain, surge and speed also can be ...

This scale – officially known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale – is a rating based on maximum sustained wind speed, which ranges from 74 to 157 mph, or higher.

Five recent storms reached a hypothetical Category 6 wind intensity on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a new study. The triangles denote which storms reached these intensities.

The Saffir-Simpson hurricane category scale is based on wind speed: A Category 1 hurricane has sustained winds from 74 to 95 mph, Category 2 has sustained winds from 96 to 110 mph, Category 3 has ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Saffir-Simpson scale, used by the National Weather Service, ranges from Category 1 to 5. Under this scale, a Category 5 hurricane is a storm with wind speeds of 157 mph or ...

There are more Category 4 and 5 hurricanes now than in the past-even the recent past. In my above example, there was only ONE Category 6 before 1980, but 3 since 2005.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale denotes the maximum wind speed of a storm, ranging from a Category 1 to Category 5. A Category 1 storm can still be dangerous – as Florence was when it ...

Category 1 ranges from 74 to 95 miles per hour; Category 2 is 96-110 mph, Category 3 (which starts the “major hurricane” range) is 111-129 mph; and Category 4 runs from 130-156 mph.

If you’re only looking at that one number, you might not think you need to evacuate your coastal home, for example, like the 1,300 people who were rescued in New Bern, N.C., when Hurricane ...

An SUV could be a Category 4 and a Fiat is a Category 1. However, if they are both going 50mph, it doesn't matter which you get hit by, the outcome won't be good.

Its 190-mph wind speeds are much stronger than the hurricane category scale defines; Category 5 storms are simply those above 155 mph. Hal Needham, a hurricane storm surge scientist at Louisiana ...