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    Hurricanes form over warm ocean waters when clusters of thunderstorms combine with moist air rising from the surface. As the storms spin, a low pressure eye forms at the center surrounded by high winds and rain. When hurricanes make landfall, they can cause devastating flooding and structural damage that increases with the storm's category on the Saffir-Simpson scale from winds up to 157 mph and storm surges over 9 meters high in the strongest storms.

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    Hurricanes form over warm ocean waters when clusters of thunderstorms combine with moist air rising from the surface. As the storms spin, a low pressure eye forms at the center surrounded by high winds and rain. When hurricanes make landfall, they can cause devastating flooding and structural damage that increases with the storm's category on the Saffir-Simpson scale from winds up to 157 mph and storm surges over 9 meters high in the strongest storms.

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    Hurricanes form over warm ocean waters when clusters of thunderstorms combine with moist air rising from the surface. As the storms spin, a low pressure eye forms at the center surrounded by high winds and rain. When hurricanes make landfall, they can cause devastating flooding and structural damage that increases with the storm's category on the Saffir-Simpson scale from winds up to 157 mph and storm surges over 9 meters high in the strongest storms.

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    News Front Page Page last updated at 17:03 GMT, Monday, 8 September 2008 18:03 UK

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    Animated guide: Hurricanes
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    Europe Animated guides to the world's most devastating
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    Hurricanes start when strong clusters of thunderstorms drift
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    The very warm air from the storm combines with the moist ocean
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    Air rises faster and faster to fill this low pressure, in turn drawing
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    Category 1: BBC News
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    Minor flooding
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    Little structural damage BBC News

    Storm surge 1.2-1.5m above normal BBC News

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    Category 2:

    • Roofs damaged

    • Some trees damaged

    • Storm surge 1.8-2.4m above normal

    Category 3:

    • Houses damaged

    • Severe flooding

    • Storm surge 2.7-3.7m above normal

    Category 4:

    • Some roofs destroyed

    • Major structural damage to houses

    • Storm surge 4-5.5m above normal

    Category 5:

    • Serious damage to buildings

    • Severe flooding further inland

    • Storm surge more than 5.5m above normal

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