On WRAL-TV and on WRAL.com, our team of meteorologists often references a threat for severe weather on a scale of 1 through 5 with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. Spring is the top ...

With rising ocean temperatures, NOAA projects that the proportion of Category 4 and 5 ... 1 hurricane could be more devastating than a Category 3. “A simple one, two, three, four, five scale ...

The National Weather Service confirmed with Local 5 News that the tornado reached max wind speeds over 90 mph.

“When it comes to hurricanes, each ones’ impacts are a little bit different but the wind speeds that we talk about along the Saffir-Simpson scale ... of category 1 through 5 hurricanes.