Do you mean tropical storms and hurricanes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale
That scale primarily measures wind speeds, but Hurricane Harvey spread lots of rain/flooding damage and deaths even though it wasn't a wind event after striking shore near Corpus Christi, TX, curving around, wandering around in the Gulf and over SE Texas -- just meandering along, dumping rain everywhere.
I'm sure one of our science tutors will have more specific ideas for you, but the differences among Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Harvey were stunning to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey
What factors could produce more damage and/or deaths from a “weaker” or lower category storm?
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