Throughout the state, rainfall totals ranged from light to moderate, with precipitation from the storm peaked at 13.98 inches (355 mm) in the Everglades portions of Miami-Dade County.
(meta data) TITLE: Hurricane Andrew- August 1992 (meta data) AUTHOR: David Roth Hurricane Andrew - August 23-28, 1992 A tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa on the 14th of August. It moved quickly westward, steered by a warm core high to its north. Narrow spiral bands began to develop around a center of rotation on the 16th. At that point, the system had likely become a tropical depression. The easterly verticial wind shear over the system weakened on the 17th , and the system continued to develop into a tropical storm. An upper low east of Bermuda steered Andrew more to the north and weakened the system. On the 21st, the southern extent of the upper trough pinched off into a new upper low to Andrew's southwest, creating a much more favorable upper environment. This development, in combination with a surface high near the southeast coast of the United States, turned Andrew more to the west and rapid ensued. In 42 hours, Andrew had strengthen from essentially a strong tropical wave northeast of the Caribbean to a major hurricane as it continued to barrel westward towards Florida. It moved across the Bahamas and into south Florida as a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, weakening as it went over the Everglades during its four hour transit over the Sunshine State. Its track arced northwest in the Gulf of Mexico, and the hurricane never regained its former intensity. Shearing as it made landfall along the Louisiana coast, it struck the Mouth of the Atchafalaya Basin early on the morning of the 26th As it moved northeast and weakened, it accelerated through the eastern United States, merging into a frontal band as it closed in on the Mid-Atlantic. Its track is below, produced by the National Hurricane Center. The graphics below show the storm total rainfall for Andrew...data by the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC and South Florida Water Management. The first row of maps show the detail in South Florida near Andrew's track. Below is the calendar for Daily Precipitation Maps. Note that the 24-hour periods end at 12z that morning. We
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Effects of Hurricane Andrew in Florida
Impact.:Miami-Dade County.
The building suffered more than $24 million in damage and forced the company to abandon corporate offices during one of its more significant product promotions. Nearby at the Charles Deering Estate, 16 ft (4.9 m) waves ravaged the property. The natural areas were devastated, while only the farthest inland section of the Richmond Cottage remained standing. Damage to repair the estate cost approximately $7.2 million. A large boat was littered ashore in a canal south of Deering Bay, where water levels were 14 ft (4.3 m) above normal. Many boats in southeast Florida were damaged from high tides produced by the storm, most notably, the Belzona Barge was damaged, which was a 215 ft (66 m), 350-ton barge. At the Boca Chita Key Historic District, a bridge and stone wall were destroyed. In addition, the powerful seas also extensively damaged coral reef systems offshore of southeast Florida. It is estimated that the storm caused at least $500 million in losses to boats. At Homestead Air Reserve Base (then known as Homestead Air Force Base), a barometric pressure of 922 mbar (27.2 inHg) was measured, making Andrew the most intense hurricane to strike Florida since the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 and the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Camille in 1969.