Port Hedland is at particular risk from cyclone damage because its buildings are quite older, Klemm said. Category 5 storms have a maximum wind speed of more than 280km/h (174mph), the bureau’s ...

It was the first Category 5 storm to make landfall on mainland U.S. since Andrew 26 years earlier. The cyclone was initially measured as a Category 4 storm, but forecasters upgraded it in April ...

Hurricane Milton is once again a Category 5 cyclone and is expected to remain a powerful hurricane through landfall on Thursday. Supreme Court orders new trial for Richard Glossip after decades on ...

Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia is intensifying rapidly to the north of Western Australia and is expected to make landfall as a destructive category 5 system on Friday. While Zelia only became a ...

He said authorities expect the category 5 tropical cyclone to cross the Pilbara Coast between Dampier and the Grey, with Karratha and Port Hedland “both at risk of direct impact”. It’s ...

Category 5: 252km/h and higher (157mph and higher ... such as the Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE) and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), provide broader assessments by factoring in storm size ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Milton has quickly become the second Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in October in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center defines "rapid intensification" as "an ...

A bomb cyclone, fueled by an atmospheric river storm ... similar to a Category 4 hurricane. The Category 5 atmospheric river—a designation reserved for the most extreme rain events—will ...

The last hurricane in the North Atlantic basin to reach such a deep pressure was Hurricane Milton, which hit 895 millibars (mb) at its peak. A strong storm churning off the coast of Australia is ...

Has Qld ever had a category 5 cyclone? There have been more than 50 category 5 cyclones to hit Australia since 1975, the most recent being Zelia which smashed Western Australia in February 2025.