Hurricane Erin raced from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm. If Erin keeps ramping up, is there a Category 6?

Let's break it down. Big Picture -What It Measures: As the name implies, the current version is strictly a wind scale that rates a hurricane's sustained winds (not gusts) from Category 1 through 5.

The longstanding hurricane rating system, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, only takes into account sustained wind speeds and not the ...

Hurricanes leave a path of devastation when they hit, and some of the storms can cost astronomical sums of money. There have ...

At that point, the NHC uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale of intensity to categorize it on a scale of 1-5.

We've experienced the damage from hurricane winds first hand, so here's a look at how it's broken down. Chief Meteorologist Travis Herzog explains the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale.

"The Saffir-Simpson scale is a measure of wind speed. But far more people die from hurricane flooding than from strong winds. Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington as a Category 1 storm.

Satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration watched Hurricane Erin as it swirled off of the ...

Hurricanes are categorized on a scale of one through five using the Saffir-Simpson scale, which is based on sustained wind speed: Category 1: 74-95 mph Category 2: 96-110 mph Category 3: 111-129 mph ...