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Is 564.09 centimeters per hour as fast as a Hurricane?

It's about one-twenty-thousandth as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 11,900,000 centimeters per hour.
(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 11,900,000 centimeters per hour. 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 31,000,000 centimeters per hour.
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