Could the 1935 Labor Day hurricane have had 200+ mph sustained winds?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

I was aware that Labor Day's 1935 "185mph sutained" estimate was a lower end estimate, but I just found an AI which found an article suggesting Labor Day 1935 was a 200mph sustained hurricane, based on what I'm about to describe.

I knew about the "Degloving" of human beings faces and hands during the storm. The article goes farther and states that people's entire flesh was ripped off by the SAND which was wind-driven, leaving behind only SKELETONS.

What i didn't know was this. Survivors reported seeing STATIC ELECTRICITY in the wind-driven sand. This must take even more wind power than the upper end estimates of the sustained winds, suggesting Labor Day 1935 might even be a 215mph sustained hurricane at landfall. The storm was incredibly compact, (small) yet produced a storm surge of over 20 ft. I find that 200mph and 50 miles radius would only produce a surge of 19 feet, suggesting the storm was even stronger than 200mph sustained "Upper estimate" found in the article.

Do your own Google AI search and ask the AI, "At what wind speed is human flesh degloved, as in the Labor Day 1935 Hurricane?"

What do you think of this? Labor Day had the exact same central pressure as Melissa from last year, but official wind speed estimates for Labor Day ar3 185mph to 200mph sustained.

Generally, smaller storms with the same pressure have higher maximum central winds.

Updates

3 mo

I found the following calcs for a 22 foot storm surge.

100 nautical mile radius (Andrew size) would need 195mph sustained winds.
75 mile radius would need 200mph sustained winds.
50 mile radius would need 205+mph sustained winds.

So it looks like Labor Day 1935 is now tied on pressure for landfall, and is still the record holder for wind speed at landfall.

Updates

3 mo

I also did a calc for 25 miles radius (the size of hurricanes Darwin and Marco) to find extreme upper estimate of sustained winds, and found them to be 209mph, which rounds up to 210mph sustained.

So there is a limit, but this is only 5 or 6mph shy of what the "theoretical maximum" is in present day Atlantic Ocean, and only 5 or 6 mph shy of Patricia's official world record in the Pacific.

[Jersey2]

Certainly wind gusts crossed over 200 mph. Instrumentation wasn’t that great then, example, no doppler radar. So could it have sustained winds greater than 200mph, yes.