Oct 14, 1999
After lingering as a broad area of low pressure in the western Caribbean Sea for four days, a tropical depression formed just after midnight EDT on October 13 and became tropical storm Irene in the northwest Caribbean Sea later that morning. Irene moved north across western Cuba on October 14 and strengthened to hurricane intensity early on October 15 in the Straits of Florida. It then made its first landfall in south Florida in the lower Florida Keys around 9 AM EDT, October 15. After crossi
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5716957). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Coastal Dade County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.