Jul 9, 2021
Tropical Storm Elsa with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, made landfall as a strong tropical storm on the panhandle of Florida on the morning of July 7th. It weakened to a minimal tropical storm as it tracked into Georgia, and then tracked northeast along the coastal plain through July 8th. Elsa strengthened a bit, with sustained winds of 50 mph, before it emerged off the Delaware coast early the morning of July 9th, and then later that morning tracked across eastern Long Island.||The highes
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 979300). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Southern Nassau County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.