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Category 1 wind speeds are 74-95 mph.

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What is the wind speed of a category 1 hurricane?

The wind speed is 74-95 mph in a category one hurricane.


What determinate the category of the hurricane?

The category of the hurricane is decided by the speed of the wind and the damage.


How many millibars are in a category one Hurricane?

A Category 1 Hurricane has 980 Millibars or greater, however, to be a C1 Hurricane, its Wind Speed has to be 75-95 MPH.


How fast does a hurricane move?

By the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, a category one hurricane wind speed is 74 to 95 mph, a category two hurricane wind speed is 96 to 110 mph, a category three hurricane wind speed is 111 to 130 mph, a category four hurricane wind speed is 131 to 155 mph, a category five hurricane wind speed is >155 mph. so how fast do they move that will be 137mph.


What is the wind speed of a category seven hurricane?

There is no such thing as a category 7 hurricane, the strongest is 5.


What is the maximum sustained wind speed of a category 2 hurricane?

The maximum wind speed of a category 2 hurricane is 110 mph.


What wind speed is a category 6 hurricane?

There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane. Any hurricane with sustained winds over 156 mph is a category 5.


How can you tell the category of a hurricane?

Wind Speed.


What is the wind speed of a category 2 hurricane?

Sustained winds of a category 2 hurricane are 96-110 mph.


What do the hurricane stages mean?

The "stage" of the hurricane is it's intensity in size and wind speed. Category One is just a nasty tropical storm with an attitude. Category Five is a horrifically devastating monster hurricane.


What speed does a category 4 hurricane change to a category 5?

When winds reach or exceed 156 mph a hurricane is considered a category 5.


A hurricane with the fastest possible wind speed would be which category?

Category 5