User blog comment:CycloneRyne94/Super Typhoon Vongfong/@comment-5617649-20141008002503/@comment-10941649-20141008154153

There's the problem with that NDB, it was 1958, and this was back when wind speed measurements of that severity were not completely believable due to the level of meteorological technology.

Had a storm such as Ida (1958) happened today, MAYBE it would have been more believable.