No, the HH aircraft does an X diagram flying across the storm, back and forth....they check each quadrant.....they indicate the max winds in each quad, one of which will end up (sometimes) being THE max wind...however, the observation of max winds has nothing to do with movement, other than, in a well organized storm, THE max winds will usually be in the 'right front' quandrant, which could be on different compass bearings, based on the actual movement of the storm.

If Franklin were (or is) moving SW, the right front quadrant would be the NW quadrant....however, the way Franklin is actually organized, I think most of the wind is east and s of the center.

He clearly is intensifying and becoming better organized, though.

MM