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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.
Hurricane Andrew was the strongest and most devastating hurricane on record to hit southern Florida. When it made landfall, Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph and a minimum central pressure of 922 millibars.
9 paź 2024 · Hurricane Andrew, tropical cyclone that ravaged The Bahamas, southern Florida, and south-central Louisiana in late August 1992. At the time, Hurricane Andrew was the most expensive Atlantic hurricane in U.S. history (later surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005).
24 sie 1992 · Hurricane Andrew was the strongest and most devastating hurricane on record to hit southern Florida. It struck South Miami-Dade County (then known as Dade County) during the pre-dawn hours on Monday, August 24th, 1992.
23 sie 1992 · Learn about the meteorology and impact of Hurricane Andrew, the third most intense hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland, from a NOAA forecaster who witnessed it. See historical maps, satellite images and photos of the storm's path and damage.
Learn about the devastating impact of Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm that hit southern Florida in 1992, and the progress in hurricane forecasting since then. See photos, satellite images, and statistics of the storm's path and damage.
25 sie 2023 · While Andrew struck southern Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. The destruction caused by the two storms was also vastly different: Andrew caused an estimated $26 billion in damage, while Katrina’s damage exceeded $100 billion.
