I believe they meant 140 KT, which would mean about 165 if I am not mistaken...
Gov Perry... If your on the Coast line of Texas leave NOW!
Easy way to convert knots to mph and vice versa...
Go to Google and type into the search box:
140 knots = ? mph
hit enter, and it will bring up:
145 knots = 161.109123 mph
That was Avila's estimate, and it was mph, I double checked...but that I think was too conservative, but Avila does conservative guestimatings...The pressure was lower for sure than his guestimate, but higher than the sat data suggested...I am guessing that now it is on the border of 4/5, with solid 5 before nightfall...Flight level winds on the last vortex reading were about 147 kt, which would make it somewhere around 125 kt on the surface, but I haven't seen an "official" interpretation of the vortex readings yet.