Is 17,900 inches per minute as fast as a Hurricane?
It's about one-fourth as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 78,200 inches per minute.
(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 78,100 inches per minute. 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 203,000 inches per minute.
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