Hurricane Andrew (1992)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 16, 1992 to August 28, 1992

Peak strength

Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)

Lowest pressure

922 mb (27.23 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

28.4

Fastest the center moved

26 kt (30 mph)

Identifier

AL041992

Radar at KAMX as it neared land, Aug 24, 09:05 UTC

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 3,083 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 13.98 inches (355 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Depression30 kt · 1007 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Depression30 kt · 1015 mb
• Hurricane BonnieNorth Atlantic · 1992Cat 295 kt · 965 mb
• Hurricane CharleyNorth Atlantic · 1992Cat 295 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm DanielleNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Storm55 kt · 1001 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Tropical Storm EarlNorth Atlantic · 1992Tropical Storm55 kt · 990 mb
• Hurricane FrancesNorth Atlantic · 1992Cat 175 kt · 976 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Andrew