Sentence examples for hurricane strength winds from inspiring English sources

Despite the utility's claims that "hurricane strength" winds battered its power lines, weather records show speeds were half that as wildfires started.

Joaquin was a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and hurricane strength winds extending 35 miles from the eye early Thursday, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.

Typhoon Lan heads for Japan Jump to media player Typhoon Lan is set to bring heavy rain and hurricane strength winds to parts of Japan.

British media are comparing Ophelia to the "Great Storm" of 1987, which subjected parts of the United Kingdom to hurricane strength winds 30 years ago to the day.

A reconnaissance plane determined that Humberto had achieved hurricane-strength winds of 80 m.p.h.

He had warned that hurricane-strength winds were likely to batter the islands until Wednesday morning.

The weather is part of a system being pushed in by the remnants of Typhoon Nuri that hit Alaska's Aleutian Islands with hurricane-strength winds over the weekend.

The waters of the Arctic are particularly perilous for drilling because of the extreme cold, long periods of darkness, dense fogs and hurricane-strength winds.

Socotra's airport was built in 1999, but even now, for four months during the vicious south-west monsoon that arrives in May when hurricane-strength winds whip the island mercilessly, ships cannot dock and planes struggle to land.

The brunt of Hurricane Sandy hit the nation's capital on Monday afternoon and continued until early Tuesday as hurricane-strength winds howled through mostly empty streets and heavy rain made it difficult to see.

In particular, Hurricane Gloria in 1985, despite having made landfall relatively far west on Long Island and having hurricane-strength winds at the time, resulted in only about $3 billion in economic damage.