Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale - National Hurricane Center
网页The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based only on a hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed. This scale does not take into account other potentially deadly hazards such as storm surge, rainfall flooding, and tornadoes.
网页Hurricane Dolly (2008) is an example of a hurricane that brought Category 1 winds and impacts to South Padre Island, Texas. Hurricane Dot Iwa (passing just northwest of Kauai in 1982) and Hurricane Dot (landfall on Kauai in 1959) are examples of Category 1 hurricanes that directly impacted Hawaii.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Text) - National Hurricane …
网页The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based only on a hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed. This scale does not take into account other potentially deadly hazards such as storm surge, rainfall flooding, and tornadoes.
网页Storm surge was also quantified by category in the earliest published versions of the scale dating back to 19726. However, hurricane size (extent of hurricane-force winds), local bathymetry (depth of near-shore waters), topography, the …
Glossary of NHC Terms - National Hurricane Center
网页The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 categorization based on the hurricane's intensity at the indicated time. The scale provides examples of the type of damage and impacts in the United States associated with winds of the indicated intensity.
National Hurricane Center
网页4 天之前 · Satellite | Buoys | Grids | Storm Archive. ...HURRICANE AND STORM SURGE WARNINGS ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA... ... RESIDENTS IN FLORIDA ARE URGED TO USE TODAY TO PREPARE FOR MILTON'S ARRIVAL AND EVACUATE IF TOLD TO DO SO BY LOCAL OFFICIALS... 7:00 AM CDT …
Tropical Cyclone Climatology (Text) - National Hurricane Center
网页Major Hurricane: A tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 111 mph (96 knots) or higher, corresponding to a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Tropical cyclones forming between 5 and 30 degrees North latitude typically move toward the …
National Storm Surge Risk Maps - Version 3 - National Hurricane …
网页This page outlines the approach to merging the SLOSH MOM products to create a seamless view of storm surge inundation and risk for Category 1-5 hurricanes. Using social science research, the carefully derived and high resolution inundation maps provide a means for effective risk communication and analysis.
TPC NHC HURRICANE ANDREW
网页1992年8月24日 · Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana.
Hurricane IRMA
网页Irma is a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane during the next couple of days.