landfall at North Myrtle Beach a couple hours later after briefly hopping offshore. NOAA continued to track Andrew and on August 21, reconnaissance aircraft found the system was much better organized. That's only 25 miles from where Charley made its second U.S.

30 near Georgetown, South Carolina, as a Category 1 hurricane. Abstract: This document proposes a set of revisions to the intensity portion of the best track for 1992s Hurricane Andrew, which is currently classified as peaking at a Saffir-Simpson Category 4 hurricane on August 23 and 24, 1992. Twenty-four hours later, Andrew underwent. The Re-analysis of Hurricane Andrew (1992) Submission to the NHC Best Track Change Committee 8 August 2002 - Revision. However, that narrow path of devastation. Hurricane Andrew is one of the storms thats permanently. As a result, Andrew reached hurricane status on August 22, when it was located 650 miles southeast of Nassau, Bahamas. The devastation caused by Andrew was over a very narrow region of South Florida due to the compact size of the storm. It holds the distinction of the costliest tropical. 24, 1992, the storm crashed ashore in southeastern Florida as a Category 5 storm with winds of 165 mph. Two days later, Ian made its final landfall on Sept. 159 people were killed along its track and caused over 65.44 billion (1992 USD) in damages along its track. At the time it was the nation's second costliest hurricane behind only Andrew. EDT), according to the National Hurricane Center's final report on Charley.Ĭharley swept into Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda after taking a similar path as Ian from western Cuba into the southeast Gulf of Mexico and intensifying.Ĭharley then tore across the Peninsula with damaging winds before sweeping into South Carolina with its final landfall.Ĭharley caused $24.6 billion damage (adjusted to 2022 dollars). If that wasn't weird enough, Ian's wind speed matched that of Charley's first landfall, and its central pressure was almost an exact match.Īnd Ian made landfall at roughly the same time of day (3:05 p.m.

The gray track is that of the center of Hurricane Charley on Aug. The meteorological history of Hurricane Andrew, the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season, lasted from mid to late August 1992. Radar image of Hurricane Ian when it made landfall at 3:05 p.m.

Andrew hurricane track