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  2. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    The former highest official temperature on Earth, ... Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h

  3. 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado - Wikipedia

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    There, it attained the highest-possible rating on the Fujita Scale, F5. Within this area, a mobile Doppler weather radar initially recorded winds of 301 mph (484 km/h) within the tornado at Bridge Creek – subsequent reanalysis in 2021 revised this value to 321 mph (517 km/h), the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth.

  4. List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes - Wikipedia

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    1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado – Mobile radar recorded winds up to 302 ± 22 mph (486 ± 35 km/h), which is the highest wind speed ever measured on Earth. Many homes were swept completely away, some of which were well-bolted to their foundations, and debris from some homes was finely granulated.

  5. Wind speed - Wikipedia

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    An anemometer is commonly used to measure wind speed. Global distribution of wind speed at 10m above ground averaged over the years 1981–2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set [1] In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in ...

  6. Tornado records - Wikipedia

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    Wind speed of 261 mph (420 km/h) or 116 m/s in tornadoes observed by radar, organized by the highest confirmed wind speed. Official rating Date Location Minimum peak wind speed Maximum peak wind speed Highest confirmed peak wind speed F5 May 3, 1999: Bridge Creek, Oklahoma: 281 mph (452 km/h) 321 mph (517 km/h) 321 mph (517 km/h) [d]

  7. High winds push commercial flights to rare 800 mph speeds - AOL

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    Some of the strongest high-altitude winds ever recorded gave commercial flights over the mid-Atlantic Saturday a supersonic boost of speed. According to the National Weather Service office in the ...

  8. Tornado - Wikipedia

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    The highest wind speed ever measured in a tornado, which is also the highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet, is 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h) in the F5 Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma, tornado which killed 36 people. [120] The reading was taken about 100 feet (30 m) above the ground. [3]

  9. Tornadoes of 1999 - Wikipedia

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    It produced a wind gust of 301 mph, the highest winds ever recorded on Earth. [5] The outbreak then produced at least seven tornadoes in Tennessee on May 5. One F4 tornado struck Linden in Perry County, killing three people, while an F2 tornado struck Gallatin in Sumner County injuring 17. [12]