Hurricane_Andrew

Hurricane Andrew The Unrighteous Storm: Andrew Hurricane Andrew was such a powerful storm, that no one today will forget the damage it caused and lives it claimed. He earned a spot in the record books as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history (Doyle 18). Hurricane Andrew demonstrates the fury that mother nature can unleash upon man. However, his speedy development and high speeds are still a mystery to meteorologists today. This violent storm was born on 17 August 1992. Andrew was a result of a tropical wave which moved off the west coast of Africa and passed south of the Cape Verde Islands. It moved uneventfully west northwestward across the Atlantic while significant changes occurred in the large-scale environment of Andrew on 21 August as a deep high pressure center developed over the southeastern U.S. (2). In response to the much more favorable environment, Tropical Storm Andrew strengthened rapidly and turned westward (3). Andrew became a hurricane on 22 August and strengthened to a strong category 4 hurricane the next day (Longshore 452). Not only was Andrew’s violent destruction record breaking, but his size was the same. He had an amazing 10 foot. wide andrew, storm, louisiana, hurricane, florida, august, one, million, while, west, took, south, moved, lives, kole, hit, high, category, week, violent, tropical, today, through, surge, strengthened, record, passed, northwestward, much, mph, knew, hits, fury, foot, estimated