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Hurricane Andrew: United States
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Around 6pm on August 23, 1992, the eye of Hurricane Andrew passed the northern end of Eleuthra Island in the Bahamas. A surface reporting station recorded a maximum wind gust of 120 mph as the eye wall passed. The height of this wind instrument above the ground was unknown. Reconnaissance reports indicated the hurricane had a "double eye" structure for a few hours. Hurricane Andrew weakened slightly as it passed through the Bahamas and the central pressure rose to 941mb.
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Radar loop of Hurricane Andrew from the National Weather Service WSR radar located in Coral Gables. Crosses indicate where wind vectors were derived from radar features in Andrew, and the diamond marks Fowey Rocks station. (See discussion in Jimmy Franklin and Chris Landsea's presentations.) The last image shown in the loop was the final radar picture taken before Andrew knocked the radar off of the roof of the Gables One Tower.
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Andrew became only the third Category Five Hurricane to make landfall in the United States. The other two were the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew ... made the jump from 23rd to tenth all-time among the strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin
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In Dade County (now called Miami-Dade), the number of residential permits was 9,026 or 7.8 percent of the state total in 1993, the year following Hurricane Andrew. That share of the state was slightly lower than the county's 7.9 percent share in 1991. By 1995, there was an increase to 14,718 or 12.0 percent of the state, but that number still wasn't much greater than what might have been expected if there hadn't been a hurricane.
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