Posters at WeatherUnderground have noted that the live wind speeds shown there have a history of being significantly low.
Well, then don’t check WU, you can check weather stations owned by people in those towns that are updating every 5 seconds to WU. Just enter the city name, click on weather stations and check them. If 10 people have weather stations in that city and all of them say peak gust was 45 MPH I think you can safely assume that is correct. I have a weather station and so does my neighbor. It uploads to WU every few seconds.