A normal home weather station is never going to properly measure those winds anyway. The kind of anemometers that can actually withstand gusts > 120 mph are not cheap, and it's not like you can properly mount them at 10 meters anyway. Or the storm surge will wipe them out if they are on the beach.
BTW: Both Dams in reference earlier have not failed (yet) misreports.
also they are on two completely different watersheds on opposite sides of the Eastern Continental divide