Correction for the speed of a Hurricane
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How fast is 1,100,000 feet per hour?
It's about three times as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 391,000 feet 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 390,000 feet 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 1,020,000 feet per hour.