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Hurricane Patricia's [sustained] winds reached record 215 mph

A satellite image shows the eye of Hurricane Patricia while it was near its peak wind speed on Oct. 25, 2015.
February 4, 2016
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/02/04/hurricane-patricia-winds-215-mph/79828370/ [with comments]

NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT
HURRICANE PATRICIA
(EP202015)
20 – 24 October 2015
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/EP202015_Patricia.pdf
official max sustained wind: 215 mph (ties the unofficial and probably overestimated world-record 215 mph of 1961's Typhoon Nancy [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nancy_(1961) ])
official lowest central pressure: 872 mb (second only to Typhoon Tip's [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tip ] 870 mb); noted [first full paragraph, p. 5] that "it is possible in the hours that followed that Patricia’s pressure fell lower than the global record value of 870 mb observed in Supertyphoon Tip in 1979"

List of tropical cyclone records
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tropical_cyclone_records

List of the most intense tropical cyclones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones

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