Yellow Evan wrote:For those of you who think Rai’s first peak is a Category 5, I have a challenge. Find me an OW eye Recon-confirmed Category 5 where the eye is well resolved.
I come back here to what is basically the awkward silence for a question that hasn't been answered in days. I mean.. you probably forgot you asked the question in the first place. So I'm going to break the awkward silence by
embarrassing myself still not understanding the question. Does well resolved mean well defined? Because I think I can find some category 5s with off-white holes in them. Maybe.
So assuming I'm not understanding the request wrong, here are some attempts. Feel free to correct my idiocy.

There's uh Typhoon Betty 1987. IBTrACS says this was Betty at 11 Aug 15:00 UTC which is 892-891mb. JTWC gives 140kt (yes this is probably AH77 derived).

There's also uh Hurricane Andrew.
Also, this would imply I think Rai reached category 5 first peak.. which I don't actually. It's not because I think it's a category 4 or something, but more like, I don't I'm qualified to give my own estimate.