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 ...

Though it will stay well offshore, dangerous storm surge will impact the U.S. eastern seaboard, triggering mandatory evacuations on Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island, NC.

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

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

Some fluctuations in intensity are expected over the next couple of days due to inner-core structural changes.

Swells triggered by the storm will create rough ocean conditions across the Eastern Seaboard this week, forecasters say.

Powerful Hurricane Erin has prompted officials in North Carolina to issue local states of emergency and is forcing residents ...

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 5 pm, the center of Hurricane Erin ...

Some fluctuations in intensity are expected over the next couple of days due to inner-core structural changes.

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite captured images of Hurricane Erin as it developed in the Atlantic and then rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm.

Following a hurricane at a CATEGORY 4, most of an area will be “uninhabitable” for anywhere between weeks or months. CATEGORY 5: This is the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.