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Is 888.550 inches per second as fast as a Hurricane?

It's about two-thirds as fast as a Hurricane
The speed of a Hurricane is about 1,300 inches per second.
(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 1,300 inches per second. 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 3,390 inches per second.
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