Hurricane Andrew Research Paper
Hurricane Andrew developed from a tropical wave that developed off the African coast on August 14,1992.
On the 16th of August it became labeled as a tropical depression and on August 17th it became a tropical storm and traveled northwest towards Lesser Antilles.
By August 21, Andrew was midway between Bermuda and Puerto Rico and turning westward.On the morning of August 22th, the storm continued to strengthen and became a category 4 hurricane with winds of 175 mph.
After briefly weakening over the Bahamas, Andrew regained Category 4 status as it made its way across south Florida on August 24.
Andrew continued west into the Gulf of Mexico, where it turned north.
This brought Andrew to the central Louisiana coast on August 26 as a Category
3 hurricane.
Andrew then turned northeastward, eventually merging with a frontal system over the Mid-Atlantic on August 28. Six hours after becoming a hurricane, Andrew was predicted to make landfall near Jupiter, Florida with winds of 105 miles per hour.
Andrew's central pressure, the pressure measured in the eye of the storm, was the third lowest of any hurricane to make landfall in the United States with 922 mb, or 27.22 inches of Hg.
The hurricane made landfall near Homestead in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1992.
The morning of Aug. 24, 1992, a storm tide of 4 to 6 feet was measured in Biscayne Bay. The hurricane caused massive evacuations in South Florida
55,000 left the Florida Keys
517,000 abandoned Miami-Dade County
300,000 left Broward County
315,000 fled Palm Beach County
Hurricane Andrew was the most powerful hurricane to hit South Florida in almost 30 years.
The nationwide total of deaths caused by Andrew was 26, with another 40 people dying as an indirect result of the storm.
In Florida, 15 died directly from the hurricane and another 29 died indirectly.
Hurricanes named category of four or five based on the Saffir-Simpson scale are considered major and rare. In a period of a hundred years, these storms hardly ever invade the US coastline. These intense hurricanes impose economic and human costs beyond belief upon the neighborhoods that they devastate, all dominated by the details of their formation and activity. It is important to better forecast and comprehend the meteorology that compel these events that we, as a community, can be more prepared for disaster when it strikes.
On the 16th of August it became labeled as a tropical depression and on August 17th it became a tropical storm and traveled northwest towards Lesser Antilles.
By August 21, Andrew was midway between Bermuda and Puerto Rico and turning westward.On the morning of August 22th, the storm continued to strengthen and became a category 4 hurricane with winds of 175 mph.
After briefly weakening over the Bahamas, Andrew regained Category 4 status as it made its way across south Florida on August 24.
Andrew continued west into the Gulf of Mexico, where it turned north.
This brought Andrew to the central Louisiana coast on August 26 as a Category
3 hurricane.
Andrew then turned northeastward, eventually merging with a frontal system over the Mid-Atlantic on August 28. Six hours after becoming a hurricane, Andrew was predicted to make landfall near Jupiter, Florida with winds of 105 miles per hour.
Andrew's central pressure, the pressure measured in the eye of the storm, was the third lowest of any hurricane to make landfall in the United States with 922 mb, or 27.22 inches of Hg.
The hurricane made landfall near Homestead in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1992.
The morning of Aug. 24, 1992, a storm tide of 4 to 6 feet was measured in Biscayne Bay. The hurricane caused massive evacuations in South Florida
55,000 left the Florida Keys
517,000 abandoned Miami-Dade County
300,000 left Broward County
315,000 fled Palm Beach County
Hurricane Andrew was the most powerful hurricane to hit South Florida in almost 30 years.
The nationwide total of deaths caused by Andrew was 26, with another 40 people dying as an indirect result of the storm.
In Florida, 15 died directly from the hurricane and another 29 died indirectly.
Hurricanes named category of four or five based on the Saffir-Simpson scale are considered major and rare. In a period of a hundred years, these storms hardly ever invade the US coastline. These intense hurricanes impose economic and human costs beyond belief upon the neighborhoods that they devastate, all dominated by the details of their formation and activity. It is important to better forecast and comprehend the meteorology that compel these events that we, as a community, can be more prepared for disaster when it strikes.