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 2:03 pm
Author: vmax135

Length: 00:27:13
Rating: 4.72
Views: 67508

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

Video Comments:
kelandaidansmom (December 31, 2008 at 5:42 am)
Funny story: I knew Hurricane Andrew struck the end of August, but for the life of me I couldn't remember which day. So on August 24, 2007 at 5:31pm I welcomed a bouncing baby boy. Yeah. I got home, and while I was recovering I thought "hey, it must be close to the anniversary of Andrew." Looked it up, then realized my Hurricane Andrew had arrived 15 years and 12 1/2 hrs after the original Hurricane Andrew. His destruction is nothing compared to this though...
triton115 (December 13, 2008 at 4:21 pm)
Especially after seeing pics of non mobile home neighborhoods that looked more like Moore, Oklahoma on May 4th, 1999 (the day after a tornado packing 318 mile per hour winds swept through that town).
triton115 (December 13, 2008 at 4:19 pm)
I just recently happened to see vmax's main website, tropmet, and saw some more pics of Andrew's destruction. And how can this be that Andrew even destroyed a few concrete block structure houses? I would imagine that Andrew's straight line wind gusts would have had to be closer to 300 miles per hour to destroy a concrete building like that.
pjicleanair420 (November 19, 2008 at 5:01 am)
thing about a hurricane is it is sustained winds sustained winds for 4-6 hours at 150 will cause much more overall destruction then an f5 twister
pjicleanair420 (November 19, 2008 at 4:59 am)
storm of all storms
Wakeuphypocrites (November 4, 2008 at 4:57 am)
I know from personal experience that Stan is a religious nut and a hateful bigot. Just another in a long line of holier that thou closeted homophobes. Way to teach your children hate you jerk. Its too bad Andrew didn't get you.
iWrestle103 (November 2, 2008 at 10:25 am)
worst hurricane ever in 1992. hurricane andrew is bad and worst. huricane andrew started in august 16-28 in southeast florida. hurricane andrew distroyed more then 900'0 houses cars towers plam trees boats roofs doors windows and stuff. this is the worst hurricane andrew ever. RIP.
triton115 (October 28, 2008 at 4:47 pm)
I also saw a couple different videos that featured meteoroligist Stan Goldenberg as he rode out Andrew. And I actually even wonder; what in blazes was Stan's house made of?! Especially after seeing footage that showed the entire top and most of the front side of his house totally obliterated!
Ladiesinthecitycom (October 24, 2008 at 7:41 pm)
Wow! That looks incredibly scary
heathey2 (October 13, 2008 at 6:40 pm)
Dont look that bad but it does get a bit windy after 10 minutes.