Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes ...

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts ...

Knowing when to prepare for an approaching hurricane or tropical storm can be stressful, which is why is it important to ...

While they may not reach us much up here in the Mid-Ohio Valley, hurricanes and tropical cyclones impact hundreds of millions ...

Those categories are based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which is one tool for assessing the intensity of a hurricane ... 85% of deaths from tropical cyclones in the U.S. have ...

It's a staple each hurricane season that warns where a tropical storm or hurricane is headed, but did you know it often won't ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

Exposure to tropical cyclones could have an impact on babies' ability to survive in certain at-risk countries, scientists ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National ... At that point, the NHC uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale of intensity to categorize it on a scale of 1-5. Category 1: Sustained winds between ...