Correction for the speed of a Hurricane
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How fast is 59 knots?
It's about nine-tenths as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 64.30 knots.
(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 64.30 knots. 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 167 knots.