Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, blasted the Bahamas and South Miami-Dade with sustained winds at 165 mph and higher wind gusts on Aug. 23-24, 1992.

Hurricane Andrew caused $26.5 billion in damage, making it the most expensive and most destructive hurricane on record in American history at the time, according to the NHC.

On this day 32 years ago, Andrew became a hurricane - the first named storm and the first hurricane of the 1992 season. Hurricane Hunters flying through the storm overnight found strong winds ...

Hurricane Andrew with its 175 mph winds was one of only three Category 5 hurricanes – the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale – to hit the U.S. and the first since ...

Hurricane Andrew was then, in the months and years that followed its Aug. 24, 1992 landfall, considered the "Big One." Boosted to Cat 5 status in a 2002 reanalysis with top wind speeds of 165 ...

Thursday marks the 25-year anniversary of Andrew (Aug. 24, 1992), the devastating Category 5 hurricane that claimed 65 lives and destroyed more than 25,000 homes in South Florida.

FLORIDA -- In the middle of a dark, squally night 26 years ago, South Florida and the people who lived there changed forever. Hurricane Andrew and its ferocious gusts blew through Miami-Dade ...

Another huge factor is Andrew was so small, while Irma is already a normal size storm and likely to grow bigger with up to 100 miles wide of Category 5 hurricane force winds, triple Andrew's girth ...

Hurricane Andrew forced a reckoning that led to Florida establishing some of the toughest storm-specific building codes in the United States, if not the world.

Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida with sustained winds of 165 mph and gusts over 200 mph as a Category 5 storm on Aug. 24, 1992. Andrew hammered Homestead and the rest of South Miami-Dade, killed ...

On this day 32 years ago, Tropical Storm Andrew had recovered from its day-earlier discombobulation and was clearly organizing and slowly strengthening. If you recall yesterday's post, throughout ...