Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Record of High Winds. [ARTICLE]

Record of High Winds.

The greatest wind velocity ever recorded at Indianapolis was 66 miles per hour, from the west, on September 1, 1897, and the next highest, 60 miles per hour, from the west, on June 25, 1882. For purposes of comparison with maximum wind velocities at other Weather Bureau stations in the United States, the following is gleaned from an article in the Weather Review for September, 1901, and other authentic sources: The highest velocity ever recorded at Block Island, R. 1., was 84 miles. At Hatteras, N. C., in 1899. 105 miles, and at Galveston, in 1900, 84 miles per hour were recorded before the instruments were blown down? but it is estimated that at Galveston the wind attained a velocity of at least 120 miles per hour. The highest velocity actually recorded on self-registers in the United States, except at Mount Washington and Pikes Peak, is 138 miles per hour at Cape Lookout, N. C., August 18, 1879, just before the anemometer was blown away. The estimated velocity the, anemometer was blown down was 165 miles per hour. At Mount Washington 186 miles was observed with a heavier anemometer than the Weather Bureau now uses, and one needing a large correction. Other wind velocities equal to, or in excess of, 80 miles an hour have been recorded at Weather Bureau stations as follows; Buffalo, N. Y., 90; Cairo. 111., 84; Charleston, S. C., 96; Chicago, 111., 84; Corpus Christi, Tex., 80; Fort Canby, Wash., 104; Key West, Fla., 88; Kitty Hawk, N. C., 100; Knoxville, Tenn., 84; North Platte, Neb., 90; St. Louis Mo„ 80, Savannah, Ga., 80;" Sioux City', lowa, 84, The most windy place in the United States at which the Weather Bureau maintains a station of observation and record is Amarillo, Tex., where the average hourly velocity is 17 miles. The place with least wind is Roseburg, Oreg., with an average hourly velocity of 3 miles.