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Further inland, several weather stations reported hurricane-force winds. The Weather Bureau office in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported maximum sustained winds of 88 mph (142 km/h) and a peak gust of 135 mph (217 km/h), exceeding the previous record for fastest measured wind speed of 98 mph (158 km/h) set during Hurricane Hazel in 1954. [1]
The Tehachapi Pass wind farm is one of the first large-scale wind farms installed in the U.S., with around 710 megawatts (950,000 hp) produced by about 3400 wind turbines. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Overview
In Huntington, a wind gust of 70 mph (110 km/h) was recorded; which was the second highest wind gust ever recorded at that station. [297] In Illinois, Helene's remnants produced heavy rains and high winds, causing several thousand outages. [298] The waves on Lake Michigan were as high as 10 ft (3.0 m). [299]
Saluda Lake Damn reached a peak of 20.23 feet during Hurricane Helene, surpassing a past record 19.4 feet. ... mph during Hurricane Helene, marking the highest rate of wind in South Carolina ...
As of 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, the storm was about 500 miles from Tampa, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 80 m.p.h.
The Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Pass in 1869. The mountain pass acts as a venturi effect to air moving between ocean and desert, increasing wind speed. [5]The area east and south of the pass is home to the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, and to the west is Alta Wind Energy Center, some of California's larger wind farms.
Helene, the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region, is now a post-tropical cyclone with winds of 35 mph, leaving at least 59 people dead in five states, leveling ...
Fastest ever recorded: 484±32 km/h (301±20 mph) (3-second gust); calculated by a DOW (Doppler On Wheels) radar unit in the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado between Oklahoma City and Moore, Oklahoma, USA, 3 May 1999. Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h).