Crop damage in Palm Beach County was estimated at an additional $70 million to sugar cane and vegetables and additional heavy losses occurred to nurseries. Overall, Hurricane Frances caused an estimated $12 billion (2004 USD) in damage placing it among the top ten costliest Atlantic hurricanes in history. There are no reports of any injured KSC workers, and there does not appear to be damage to the Space Shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. NASA Assesses Hurricane Frances Damage NASA teams are surveying the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for damage caused by Hurricane Frances. Agrillo had been renovating the unit for two months and was almost fin. Most of the damage was due to flooding, including freshwater and tidal storm surge. At this time Hurricane Frances was located about 800 miles east of the Leeward Islands and was moving northwest near 12-mph with maximum sustained winds of 115-mph. Hurricane Frances Slams Florida Fact Sheet Event date: August 24, 2004 – September 6, 2004 Figure 1. 091104: Boynton Beach: (Met): Hurricane Frances: Nuncio Agrillo, walks through the damage caused by hurricane Frances to unit 401 of building number two at Village Royale on the Green, Saturday September 11, 04, in Boynton Beach. Initial assessments show KSC weathered the storm fairly well. Hurricane Frances strengthened and at 5 p.m. Friday, August 27, the NHC’s twelfth advisory upgraded Frances to a Category 3 (major) hurricane. Summary of event: Hurricane Frances was not a particularly windy storm for the west coast of Florida. A preliminary damage estimate for Frances in south Florida is $620 million, including $500 million in Palm Beach, $80 million in Broward, and $34 million in Miami-Dade. 1 Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale 2 Time from first tornado to last tornado … Hurricane Frances best track position. The next day,