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To be considered a hurricane a tropical cyclone must have sustained winds of at least 74 mph. Hurricanes have been known to produce winds of up to 190 mph on rare occasions.
Carefully :D No, actually typically it would be done with tools such as an anemometer to measure the wind speed, and a variety of other tools, electric or manual, to determine it more exactly.