Hi everyone...I've been a long-time (3 year) lurker on the site and, first of all, the community is amazing and has quite a few bright minds.

I would like to add a question, however. It seems to me that, given the pressure and the eye diameter, that the windspeeds must far exceed 175 mph. For instance, Katrina had an eye that was many multiples larger than Wilmas, she had a higher central pressure, and yet, the max. sustained winds are the same. If I understand history correctly, intensely low pressures with small diameter eyewalls correlate to extremely high windspeeds such as those in Camille. Another storm that comes to mind is Tropical Cyclone Tracy that hit Darwin, Australia (which is thought to have been a strong 5). My thought is that the hurricane hunters were simply unable to find the core of the strongest winds in the storm due to the diffculty of taking measurements within an extremely small (and violent) eyewall.

Thoughts and opinions....could I be wrong here?