Hurricane Michael Was A Category 5, NOAA Finds — The First Since Andrew In 1992
With winds of 160 mph, the October hurricane was the strongest on record to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle, where communities are still trying to recover. NOAA upgraded it from a Category 4.
Scientists at NOAA's National Hurricane Center that Hurricane Michael had an intensity of 160 mph when it made landfall at the Florida Panhandle last October. That means it was a Category 5 hurricane on the â just one of four such U.S. storms on record.
