High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1945 Southeast Florida hurricane was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1945 Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfall on Homestead, Florida with estimated sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h). The ninth tropical storm, third Atlantic hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season, it developed east-northeast of the Leeward Islands on September 12. It moved briskly west-northwest, and it attained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) on September 13, becoming the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane. It moved over the Turks and Caicos Islands on September 14, and it struck Andros on September 15. Later, it intensified to its peak intensity over the Gulf Stream, and it made landfall on Key Largo and southern Dade County.