Category 5 is the most severe hurricane.
The worst category of hurricane is a category 5, with winds of at least 156 mph.
Yes. Category 5 is the highest hurricane category with winds in excess of 156 mph.
Hurricane Shelters are very effective in protecting windows during a hurricane. Shutters are rated by the category of hurricane they can withstand, from one to five with five being the most durable.
A number of Hurricanes can lay claim to that title. Typhoon Tip, Hurricane Camille and a few others both had winds in the rage of 190 mph. The most intense HUrricane in terms of low pressure was Hurricane Wilma.
No. A category 5 is the most severe.
No. A category 5 is the most severe.
Hurricane Katrina started out as a tropical depression, as most hurricanes do, then strengthened to a tropical storm and then a category 1 hurricane. Nor hurricane ever actually starts at hurricane intensity, and they have to go through category 1 to get to the other categories.
No a category 1 hurricane is the least sever in wind speed, and strength. A category 5 is the most powerful type of hurricane to date, reaching winds of up to 190 mph. But that does not mean that a category 5 is the most destructive, any hurricane can cause enough damage to kill thousands.
The strongest and generally most destructive category of hurricane is category 5, though a hurricanes wind-speed based rating is not the only factor in how destructive a hurricane is.
Category 5
No. Category 1 is the weakest category of hurricane. In most cases category 5 hurricanes are the worst. However, some pf the impacts of a hurricane do not necessarily depend on the storm's category.
A category 1 hurricane is the weakest category of hurricane, with wind from 74 mph to 95 mph