 The highest maximum sustained wind speed ever recorded was or in Hurricane Patricia in 2015—the most intense cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.Typhoon Nancy in 1961 also had recorded wind speeds of or , but recent research indicates that wind speeds from the 1940s to the 1960s were gauged too high, and thus it is no longer considered the storm with the highest wind speed on record.Likewise, a surface-level gust caused by Typhoon Paka on Guam in late 1997 was recorded at or .