186 mph wind
Posted by JAC on 11/19/2009, 6:55 am


The anemometer on top of Sheep Mt. in Alaska recorded a gust to 186 mph on 11/14.  The storm that produced that gust also brought the wind to 95 mph at Cape Spencer and 87 mph at Eldred Rock.  

The world record fastest non-tornadic wind gust is 231 mph on top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire in April 1934.  

The fastest wind anywhere in the world in 1956 was during the Hudsonville tornado of April 3, 1956.  The tornado was rated F5 on the Fujita Scale with winds over 260 mph.  
A portable Doppler radar indicated a wind of over 300 mph about 100 feet off the ground in the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 3, 1999.
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