Correction for the speed of a Hurricane
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How fast is 147 feet per second?
It's about one-and-one-third times as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 109 feet per second.
(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 108 feet per second. 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 283 feet per second.