A hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 157 mph is considered to be a Category 5 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson ...

Hurricane Otis struck very near Acapulco, Mexico, as a monster 165 mile-per-hour category 5 cyclone. About 24-hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was predicting it would do so ...

While multiple hurricanes that made landfall in the U.S. peaked at Category 5, only four storms on record have done so at ...

Latest news on Hurricane Milton as it heads toward Florida, which was impacted by Hurricane Helene just days ago. Follow live as the storm approaches landfall.

Milton was tracking across the Gulf of Mexico bound for what could be a devastating crash along Florida's already ...

Hurricane Milton rapidly grew to a major Category 5 storm on its path to Florida. See the wind speeds and damage types for every category.

As Hurricane Florence neared the North Carolina coast in 2018, it was repeatedly "downgraded"—from a Category ... and 5—lesser-ranked storms can still cause catastrophic damage.

A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that ... from rip currents. Category 5 hurricanes are the most powerful type of storm on Earth. They can cause catastrophic damage with wind speeds ...

With Hurricane Milton strengthening on its path towards Florida, here's how storms are classified from a tropical depression to a Category 5.

That's a leap of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures hurricane strength and potential damage ... Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. With maximum sustained winds of 205 ...

Those preparations include securing railroad gates at 129 railroad crossings on the 61.5-mile railway corridor, including the ...

Two dozen South Carolina counties, including most of the Lowcountry, are under a tornado watch until 8 a.m. Friday. These ...