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Florida Flood Stories

2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Tropical Storm

Coastal Manatee, FL · Jul 31, 2017

Tropical Storm Emily formed on the tail-end of a slow moving frontal boundary that was draped across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. A weak area of low pressure developed on the 30th and slowly drifted southeast towards the Florida peninsula.

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Tropical Storm

Flagler, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Gilchrist, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Nassau, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Duval, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Baker, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Union, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Sarasota, FL · Jul 31, 2017

Tropical Storm Emily formed on the tail-end of a slow moving frontal boundary that was draped across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. A weak area of low pressure developed on the 30th and slowly drifted southeast towards the Florida peninsula.

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Tropical Storm

Pinellas, FL · Jul 31, 2017

Tropical Storm Emily formed on the tail-end of a slow moving frontal boundary that was draped across the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. A weak area of low pressure developed on the 30th and slowly drifted southeast towards the Florida peninsula.

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Tropical Storm

St. Johns, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Hurricane Irma's eye passed west of the local forecast area, with the region on the storm's turbulent east side. Widespread tropical storm force winds with gusts to hurricane force were felt across much of the area, with the strongest winds surging up the Florida east coast…

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Tropical Storm

Glades, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Major Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida on Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane around 330 PM EDT on September 10th. The storm traveled north through southwest Florida through the evening.

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Tropical Storm

Inland Broward County, FL · Sep 9, 2017

Major Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida on Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane around 330 PM EDT on September 10th. The storm traveled north through southwest Florida through the evening.

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Tropical Storm

Inland Palm Beach County, FL · Sep 10, 2017

Major Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida on Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane around 330 PM EDT on September 10th. The storm traveled north through southwest Florida through the evening.

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Palm Beach County, FL · Sep 9, 2017

Major Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida on Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane around 330 PM EDT on September 10th. The storm traveled north through southwest Florida through the evening.

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Broward County, FL · Sep 9, 2017

Major Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida on Marco Island as a Category 3 hurricane around 330 PM EDT on September 10th. The storm traveled north through southwest Florida through the evening.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Aug 19, 2020

A robust, stationary trough over the Gulf of Mexico kept deep, south/southwest flow and rich tropical moisture over South Florida. Several short waves rotating |around the base of the trough enhanced the showers and |thunderstorms that produced a tornado over the Golden Beach…

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Aug 19, 2020

A robust, stationary trough over the Gulf of Mexico kept deep, south/southwest flow and rich tropical moisture over South Florida. Several short waves rotating |around the base of the trough enhanced the showers and |thunderstorms that produced a tornado over the Golden Beach…

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Aug 19, 2020

A robust, stationary trough over the Gulf of Mexico kept deep, south/southwest flow and rich tropical moisture over South Florida. Several short waves rotating |around the base of the trough enhanced the showers and |thunderstorms that produced a tornado over the Golden Beach…

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Flood

Alachua, FL · Sep 18, 2021

A saturated tropical airmass (PWAT over 2 inches) combined with diurnal instability and fueled locally heavy rainfall in showers and storms that formed near a meandering trough axis across north Florida and sea breezes.

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Flash Flood

Duval, FL · Jun 13, 2021

A lingering front near the I-10 corridor combined with an upper level trough aloft. These features combined with the sea breezes over a moist and unstable airmass with weak steering flow produced flooding rainfall over parts of Jacksonville and a few pulse severe storms that had…

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Flash Flood

Brevard, FL · Oct 1, 2017

A surface boundary draped across the central Florida peninsula resulted in slow moving showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall across central and southern Brevard County.

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Flash Flood

Brevard, FL · Oct 1, 2017

A surface boundary draped across the central Florida peninsula resulted in slow moving showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall across central and southern Brevard County.

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Flood

Brevard, FL · Oct 1, 2017

A surface boundary draped across the central Florida peninsula resulted in slow moving showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall across central and southern Brevard County.

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Flood

Brevard, FL · Oct 1, 2017

A surface boundary draped across the central Florida peninsula resulted in slow moving showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall across central and southern Brevard County.

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