TAMPA, Fla. - A hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 157 mph is considered to be a Category 5 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. A Category 5 is the strongest a ...

Hurricane Milton is once again a Category 5 cyclone and is expected to remain a powerful hurricane through landfall on Thursday. Jets security had to escort Robert Saleh out of team building after ...

The latest on Hurricane Milton from NBC6’s John Morales and Ryan Phillips. Last year, Hurricane Otis struck very near Acapulco, Mexico, as a monster 165 mile-per-hour category 5 cyclone.

As of the 5 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Milton was a post-tropical cyclone, meaning the storm has lost its tropical characteristics as it continues to weaken.

August holds the crown for the month with the most continental U.S. Category 5 landfalls at two: Camille in 1969 and Andrew in 1992.

The National Hurricane Service, after observing the Category 5 cyclone continually strengthen, reported Monday that Florida-bound "Milton Explosively Intensifies With 175-Mph Winds." ...

Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall Friday on Australia's west coast as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind gusts at 180 mph, though minimal damage ensued.

Bansi was no exception. Although it started on Jan. 9, 2015 as a "low-pressure system," Bansi flew through a series of classifications in a matter of days and was named a Category 5 cyclone on Jan ...

Cyclone Harold approached Sanma province, an island north of the capital Port Vila, with winds of up to 215 km (133 miles) per hour about 1 pm local time (0200 GMT), as the country of 276,000 ...