Not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene swamped the Florida coastline, Milton strengthened into a major hurricane that is ...

A 2009 simulation imagined what a direct strike from a Category 5 hurricane would do to the Tampa Bay area—and the results were chilling.

Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale already captures ‘Catastrophic Damage’ from wind ... and hazardous surf – causing ...

The North Carolina State Climate Office estimates that Hurricane Matthew is the fifth-deadliest and fourth-costliest North Carolina tropical cyclone on record.

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

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

Hurricane Milton began its turn toward Florida on Tuesday still a powerful Category 4 hurricane with a forecast landfall near ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...