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

Minimal tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in less than 48 hours. 60 kt of intensification in 12 hours alongside a 63-mb ...

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

Hurricane Milton went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than 24 hours as it headed ...

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 ...

Hurricane Milton is expected to bring unsurvivable storm surge up to 15ft to parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast by Wednesday ...

Hurricane Milton surged Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 175 mph winds in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to ...

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.

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

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

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 ...