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Image: Andrew 1992-08-23 2100Z

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Description: The VISSR instrument onboard the NOAA GOES-7 satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Andrew on August 23, 1992, at 21:00 UTC (5:00 P.M. EDT). At the time this image was captured, Andrew was a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained wind speeds of 160 mph (260 km/h), and its minimum central pressure was 923 mb.
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