Hurricane Erin maintained its Category 2 strength early Wednesday morning as North Carolina's coasts prepared for life-threatening coastal flooding, with mandatory evacuations underway for some ...

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

Hurricane Erin reached the maximum intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale last Saturday (16), becoming a category 5 storm with ...

If a storm is a Category 3, 4 or 5, it is deemed a "major" hurricane due to the potential for "significant loss of life and ...

Hurricane Erin will cause a high risk of rip currents along the Lowcountry coastline through the end of the week despite its ...

Erin a dangerous, large major hurricane. Erin will move east of us through this week leaving us no direct impacts however a DANGEROUS rip current risk this week. At 11 pm, the center of Hurricane Erin ...

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 Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale rates hurricanes from 1 to 5 based on sustained wind speed to estimate potential property damage. Hurricanes reaching Category 3 and higher are considered ...

"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.

The Saffir-Simpson scale of a hurricane's intensity is used to estimate potential property damage and coastal flooding caused by storm surge. The scale is determined by wind speed. Storm surge ...

Herbert Saffir and Dr. Robert Simpson developed a 5 point scale for categorizing Hurricane strength. The scale is as follows. Category:1 — 74-95 mph, No real damage to buildings.