2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Hermine impacted the Florida big bend in early September with significant storm surge along the coast and strong winds inland which downed numerous trees and power lines, resulting in extended power outages in Tallahassee.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary retreating across South Florida and ample low-level tropical moisture allowed for showers and thunderstorms to produce excessive rainfall on the evening of October 26 into the early overnight of October 27 which led to flooding over portions of Southeast…
Read the full account →Hurricane Hermine impacted the Florida big bend in early September with significant storm surge along the coast and strong winds inland which downed numerous trees and power lines, resulting in extended power outages in Tallahassee.
Read the full account →Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, and Jackson counties were declared federal disaster areas. Nearly 6 inches of rain from March 8-9 caused urban/small stream flooding in Bayou George and much of the north and northwest Bay County.
Read the full account →A strong long wave trough was centered over the mid Mississippi Valley extending south to the Gulf coast with several shortwaves rotating around it.
Read the full account →Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…
Read the full account →Hurricane Hermine impacted the Florida big bend in early September with significant storm surge along the coast and strong winds inland which downed numerous trees and power lines, resulting in extended power outages in Tallahassee.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →On August 19th Tropical Storm Fay came on shore in south west Florida moving north northeast toward Lake Okeechobee. By the early morning of August 20th Tropical Storm Fay had moved to southern Brevard County producing rainfall amounts ranging from 10 to 15 inches in Martin,…
Read the full account →A very moist atmosphere coupled with a series of upper level disturbances resulted in several persistent rainbands. Significant urban and small stream flooding affected portions of Melbourne/Palm Bay and Lake Mary/Winter Park.
Read the full account →A trough of low pressure developed over the eastern Gulf of Mexico and passed east across the Florida Peninsula on the 26th through 28th of August, bringing abundant tropical moisture into the area.
Read the full account →A strong surface low deepened across the eastern Gulf of Mexico as high pressure dominated northeast of the region creating very strong onshore flow.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hermine impacted the Florida big bend in early September with significant storm surge along the coast and strong winds inland which downed numerous trees and power lines, resulting in extended power outages in Tallahassee.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hermine impacted the Florida big bend in early September with significant storm surge along the coast and strong winds inland which downed numerous trees and power lines, resulting in extended power outages in Tallahassee.
Read the full account →Major Hurricane Matthew moved northwest across the Central Bahamas during the day on October 6th, making it's closest approach to the East coast of South Florida during the early morning hours of October 7th.
Read the full account →The center of category 3 Hurricane Jeanne reached the Florida east coast near Sewall's Point in Martin County shortly after midnight on September 26th. Remarkably, this is in the same location where Hurricane Frances came ashore on September 5th.
Read the full account →The center of Hurricane Floyd passed about 115 statute miles off the coast of east central Florida on September 15th. The areas hardest hit were coastal sections of Brevard and Volusia counties. Both counties experienced widespread wind gusts to near 70 mph.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irma brought numerous impacts to the Florida Big Bend, southwest Georgia and southeast Alabama including widespread downed trees and power lines, roads blocked by trees, power outages, and trees on homes.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irma brought numerous impacts to the Florida Big Bend, southwest Georgia and southeast Alabama including widespread downed trees and power lines, roads blocked by trees, power outages, and trees on homes.
Read the full account →Hurricane Eta originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Caribbean Sea on October 31st. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Eta later that day and continued rapid intensification to major hurricane status on November 2nd while moving westward…
Read the full account →A frontal boundary retreating across South Florida and ample low-level tropical moisture allowed for showers and thunderstorms to produce excessive rainfall on the evening of October 26 into the early overnight of October 27 which led to flooding over portions of Southeast…
Read the full account →A frontal boundary retreating across South Florida and ample low-level tropical moisture allowed for showers and thunderstorms to produce excessive rainfall on the evening of October 26 into the early overnight of October 27 which led to flooding over portions of Southeast…
Read the full account →Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, and Jackson counties were declared federal disaster areas. Nearly 6 inches of rain from March 8-9 caused urban/small stream flooding in Bayou George and much of the north and northwest Bay County.
Read the full account →Hurricane Jeanne formed from a tropical depression just east of the Leeward Islands on September 13. She moved across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola then turned north into the Atlantic and became a hurricane on September 20.
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