Hurricane Michael was the strongest
tropical cyclone to strike the continental
United States since
Andrew in
1992 and the strongest on record in the
Florida Panhandle. It was the third-most intense hurricane to make
landfall on the United States in terms of
pressure, behind the
1935 Labor Day hurricane and
Hurricane Camille of
1969, as well as the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous United States in terms of
wind speed.