Correction for the speed of a Hurricane
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How fast is 10,000 feet per minute?
It's about one-and-a-half times as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 6,520 feet per minute.
(formally: Topical cyclone; a.k.a. typhoon)
A hurricane is defined by the US National Hurricane Center as a Northern Hemisphere tropical storm having one-minute average wind-speeds of at least 6,510 feet per minute. Typhoons Tip (October, 1979) and Keith (October, 1997) and Hurricanes Camille (August, 1969) and Allen (August, 1980) jointly hold the record for highest tropical storm wind speeds at 17,000 feet per minute.