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Aug 24, 2017 · Monday, Aug. 24, 1992: Just before 5 a.m., Hurricane Andrew –- now a category 5 storm -- makes landfall in southern Miami-Dade County near Elliot Key. At 5 a.m., the storm is 10 miles east of ...
Oct 27, 1992 · But those numbers are at best misleading, according to a panel of wind engineers and others who contend the hurricane center is inflating its numbers and that Andrew's sustained winds overland ...
Hurricane Andrew at the time was the costliest disaster in Florida, as well as the then-costliest on record in the United States. Hurricane Andrew formed from a tropical wave on August 16, 1992, in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It moved west-northwest and remained weak for several days due to strong wind shear. However, after curving westward on ...
Aug 26, 1992 · Hurricane Andrew. Although it spent most of its life as a tropical cyclone, its high winds left extensive damage to the Bahamas, Louisiana, and Florida, making landfall in south Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, with the maximum sustained surface wind speed estimated at about 145 mph. Until Hurricane Irma , it was the most destructive to ever ...
Figures Fig. 1 Track of Hurricane Andrew. Fig. 2) Selected wind observations and proposed best track maximum sustained surface wind speed curve for name/dates. Aircraft observations have been adjusted for elevation using 90%, 80%, and 75% reduction factors for observations from 700 mb, 850 mb, and 1500 ft, respectively (Franklin et al. 2002 ...
Hurricane Andrew. Andrew came ashore in the early morning of August 24, 1992, near Homestead with sustained winds of 165 mph, gusts of 177 mph and a storm surge up to 5 meters (17 feet). Fortunately, the storm had a very rapid forward motion of 16 mph so the maximum impact didn’t last that long, and the storm was quite compact, however ...
Damage in the United States was estimated to be about $26 billion, making Andrew the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history. This hurricane struck southern Dade County, Florida, with an intensity assessed back in 1992 as a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, based upon estimated maximum sustained surface winds of 145 mph.
