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Hurricane Andrew was a tropical cyclone that struck the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. It is the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged or destroyed, and remained the costliest in financial terms until Hurricane Irma surpassed it 25 years later.
22 sie 2017 · Homestead was the epicenter of the Category 5 storm that devastated South Florida in 1992. Learn how the city and its residents coped with the aftermath of the most destructive hurricane in Florida history.
Following its passage through The Bahamas, Andrew made landfall near Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane on August 24. Eventually, Andrew struck southern Louisiana before it dissipated over the eastern United States on August 28.
See how Hurricane Andrew, the strongest and most devastating storm to hit southern Florida in 1992, looked from NOAA satellites. Learn how NOAA's latest generation of satellites has improved hurricane monitoring and forecasting.
24 sie 2017 · Hurricane Andrew, the last category 5 storm to strike the United States, made landfall in southern Miami-Dade County near Homestead on Aug. 24, 1992. Wind gusts reached up to 177 mph in some areas ...
24 sie 1992 · Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic devastation along a path through the northwestern Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and south-central Louisiana.
Learn about the devastating impact of Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm that hit South Florida in 1992, and how NOAA has improved hurricane forecasting since then. See photos, satellite images, and statistics of the storm and its aftermath.
