Sentences with phrase «status at landfall»
If it did maintain Category 5 status at landfall, it would be in rare company: such a ferocious storm has only struck the U.S. three times in recorded history.
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It was the first recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin; it remains the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the United States.