Description	Thirty years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Miami-Dade County (then known as Dade County) on August 24, 1992 as one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in U.S. history. When it did so, Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph and a minimum central pressure of 922 millibars. It’s one of only four hurricanes to make landfall in the United States as a Category 5 since 1900 (the others being the 1935 Florida Keys Labor Day storm, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Michael in 2018). The storm then moved over the Gulf of Mexico and made a second landfall near Point Chevreuil, Louisiana, on August 26, 1992 as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 115 mph and a central pressure of 956 millibars. In all, Hurricane Andrew destroyed more than 50,000 homes and caused an estimated $26 billion in damage, making it at the time the most expensive natural disaster in United States history, not to be surpassed until Hurricane Katrina 13 year
Date	25
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Author	NOAA

Remembering Hurricane Andrew 30 Years Later (NESDIS 2022-08-25 2022 08 25 RememberingHurricaneAndrew30YearsLater TWITTER)

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