# Is a Category 6 Hurricane Meteorologically Possible?

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**Created:** [October 27, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-category-6-hurricane-meteorologically-possible/1024326 "2025-10-27T12:02:59Z")\
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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> The real limiting factors are supersonic flow and the temperature difference between the lower stratosphere & the surface.

Thinking about it, one limit is going to be that there can only be so much energy at the center before it _stops being_ a hurricane and is something else, like an explosion.

To use the previously mentioned example of a hypercane fueled by the aftermath of an asteroid strike it _happened_ in the aftermath because the actual asteroid strike is too violent, transient and energetic for something like a hurricane to form.

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