Hurricane Andrew - Southeast Florida - August 24, 1992

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This is my Hurricane Andrew chase video. The footage was taken during Andrew's landfall on the Southeast Florida coast, at Coconut Grove, south of Miami. Though Andrew was extremely small, moving very quickly and made landfall about 15 miles to the south, my location was right at the edge of the hurricane's northern eyewall. Unfortunately the entire peak of the storm was at night, however, using a portable spotlight, I was able to capture footage throughout the entire event. Even with the challenging video conditions, Andrew's ferocity is clearly obvious in this footage. The roar of the wind is deafening, punctuated by breaking glass and other debris. Peak winds occur between 13 through 17 minutes into the video, and are sustained near 130mph with gusts to 150mph. The anemometer at the National Hurricane Center (about 2 miles west of my location) failed after recording a gust to 164mph. Based on post-analysis, Andrew is now estimated to have had sustained winds of 165mph with peak gusts near 200-215mph at landfall in South Florida, making it one of only three Category Five hurricanes ever to strike the United States.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: December 10, 2006 at 1:03 am
Author: vmax135

Length: 00:27:13
Rating: 4.68
Views: 45518

Tags: Hurricane Andrew Severe Weather Storms Tropical Cyclone Florida Hurricanes 1992 Extreme Wind Disaster Category Five

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numbing numbered numerous Comments:
Girrocks002 (August 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm)
ok i wasnt even born when this happend but is that the rare ball of lighting at 6:47-7:02?! cuz when i was in 1st grade it was 12:00PM and it was pitch black and... i saw this huge ball of lightning that was about 1 min long and the sky stayed black until the next day but the power went out at school so we had to go home...it was scary but awsome
crossbones64 (August 27, 2008 at 4:31 am)
wow sunset place wasnt built yet
Heresjonny15 (August 26, 2008 at 7:56 am)
Man why do we Always get the hurricane?!?!
poptartguy99 (August 24, 2008 at 9:55 pm)
holy shit my birthday its today august 24 right and my name is andrew im 14!
FloridaGators10 (August 24, 2008 at 8:04 pm)
today is the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew.
Gemini114 (August 23, 2008 at 11:47 pm)
I wuz one and my area wuz suppose to get the brunt of it. We had this huge tree next to our house that had fallen down. If it had fallen the other way, towards the house, i wouldnt be here today becuz tht tree wuz right nxt to the room I wuz in. Turns out the block in front of us got hit with it worst, our block got NADA
roaddiablo (August 21, 2008 at 11:28 pm)
I ived here in ft myers, 160miles north of homestead. I remember 2 ttornadoes at the same time on my grandmothers block destroying everything. when we went home our road was 3feet under water. Our sailboat was in the back yard an floated away into the woods be hind us.
futureUSAsoldier (August 20, 2008 at 3:17 pm)
I was born this day
babygfeva (August 22, 2008 at 3:56 pm)
u are so unlucky but lucky that u actually got to be born after this
eminee87 (August 18, 2008 at 7:46 pm)
i was 5 when this happpened. i lived right in miami. didn't get the worse of it. poor homestead did. but i remember it. it was pretty scary.