category 5
Strongest storm classification
Category 5 is the highest rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, indicating sustained winds of 157 mph or greater.
A category 5 hurricane causes catastrophic damage: Katrina made landfall as a category 5.
The term extends to other five-tier rating systems, such as ethernet cabling standards, where category 5 (or cat 5) describes a common type of network cable.
- hurricaneViolent tropical windstorm
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- cycloneRotating low-pressure storm system
- typhoonWestern Pacific hurricane
- eye of the stormCalm amid rotating fury
winds · wind speeds · sustained winds · devastating · catastrophic · extreme · natural disaster · Katrina · destruction · landfall · eyewall · storm surge · surge · mandatory evacuation · evacuation · FEMA · disaster relief · coastal flooding
- storm ratingsF1, F3, F5, tropical depression, tropical storm
- hurricaneshurricane, tropical cyclone, Andrew, Katrina, eyewall
weather severity (general)
category 5calm
Free from agitation
clear skies · fair weather · mild weather · gentle breeze · balmy
- category fiveHighest storm intensity rating
- broad category
- grammatical categoryClassification of linguistic units
- category 3A classification tier
- category errorAssigning wrong logical kind
- monoidal category