Hurricane Floyd was the first major storm visualized by NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory

Hurricane Andrew was only the third Category 5 storm to impact the U.S. when it made landfall on August 24, 1992 near Homestead, FL.

Hurricane Andrew's Category 5 impact to the U.S. joins ranks with the 1935 Labor Day storm and 1969's Hurricane Camille

The conditions were "perfect" for a monstrous storm that would explode in the northern Atlantic Ocean creating waves ten stories high.