Wave statistics of the North Atlantic Ocean, instrumental in designing merchant ships, were revisited by an in-house high-resolution 25-year wave hindcast (TodaiWW3-NK). The tail of the exceedance probability of was extended to 20 m and compared surprisingly well against the satellite altimeter. Moreover, we have found that the largest storm event in 25 years with the highest wave over 21 m in January 2014 significantly enhanced the tail of the distribution, which is a feature that was common among the three wave-hindcasts (ERA5/ECMWF, IOWAGA/IFREMER, and TodaiWW3-NK). Paradoxically, the satellite altimeter did not detect the at the peak of this storm. We found that extreme wave heights from models and satellites of three storms in 2007, 2011, and 2014 may deviate about a few meters among the estimates, particularly the altimeter having a large uncertainty. In-situ observations of the extreme wave events are urgently in need.