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The Florida landfall of Hurricane Andrew in 1992

By Scott Bachmeier •

GOES-7 Infrared (11.35 um) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-7 Infrared (11.35 um) images (above) showed Hurricane Andrew making landfall along the southeast coast of Florida — as a Category 5 storm — around 0831 UTC  on 24 August 1992. At that time, the coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures of the eyewall region were around -75ºC. These images were created using archived data from SSEC Satellite Data Services.

More information on Andrew can be found in this video produced by NWS Miami for the 25th anniversary of the storm.

Categories: GOES-7, Historical, Tropical cyclones