 Those are the winds you encounter in a high-end EF5 tornado, so absolutely devastating sort of winds. Fortunately, that hurricane weakened before it made landfall as a Category 4 storm with 150-mile-an-hour winds. And do we know of great storms in earlier centuries, even if we don't have the instruments? You know, we do. There are a lot of records of hurricanes going back to colonial times, and in particular, there's a hurricane called the Great Hurricane.