AUSTIN (KXAN) — As hurricane season is quickly approaching, let’s remind you about the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.

The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane-force wind warning for areas of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, Southern Washington and the northern tip of California on Tuesday ...

Windows will be blown out of high-rise buildings ... according to the National Hurricane Center. Now the wind is the scale’s strength — but also its weakness, said Gina Eosco, the division ...

Helene grew from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane late Wednesday morning, with top sustained winds blowing at 80 mph ... the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which is used by ...

Sudden, hurricane-force winds toppled the luxury Bayesian superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily last August, according ...

Hurricane winds are a major contributor to storm-related losses for people living in the southeastern coastal states. As the ...

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued their pre-season Atlantic hurricane forecast ...

“There’s a gust blowing against my back I could ... In St. Petersburg, the latest wind gust recorded reached 84 mph. The hurricane is now a Category 2, moving inland with flash flood ...

This scale is designed to categorize hurricanes based on wind speed ... shingles may be blown off, with several power outages. Winds are between 74-95 mph. In a Category 4 hurricane, damage ...

Hurricane winds are a major contributor to storm-related losses for people living in the southeastern coastal states. As the global temperature continues to rise, scientists predict that hurricanes ...