Semi tanker drives through flooded road - GIF

[mklotz]

288 mph is still a lot of wind.

Yes, it is but at least it's feasible, if unrecorded, on this planet. For 8000+ mph wind you would have to go to Jupiter or some such. Note that there are recorded instances of semis having been tipped over by wind in the southwest deserts.

The whole idea of equating the kinetic energy is suspect because the wind and water impinge on different areas of the truck. I haven't given it a great deal of thought but it would probably be more realistic to compare the drag forces exerted on the truck by wind and water. Using the drag equation would force you to deal with the drag coefficients for those two fluids and the vastly different areas associated with the forces they generate.