2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Storm Fay moved north from Cuba, through the Florida Straits, and passed north through the Lower Florida Keys during the evening of August 18, 2008.
Read the full account →A tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic from near the west coast of Africa eventually spawned the tropical cyclone that became hurricane Katrina. The tropical wave became a tropical depression near the central Bahamas late on August 22.
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 →Hermine formed in the Florida Straits south of Key West on August 28th. It remained a very disorganized tropical depression for a few days before the environment around it gradually became more favorable and it became a tropical storm late in the day on the 30th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Fay came ashore along the northeast Florida coast on the 21st. Fay moved slowly westward across northern Florida, producing widespread heavy rainfall and strong winds. On the 22nd, Fay began to approach the waters of Apalachee Bay.
Read the full account →Hurricane Frances formed from a tropical depression in the deep tropical Atlantic on August 25 about 1400 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and reached hurricane strength on August 26.
Read the full account →Hurricane Frances made landfall just after midnight on September 5th near Vero Beach as a Category 2 storm. The hurricane continued to move slowly west northwestward across central Florida to near Bartow by 2 pm, and just northeast of Tampa by 8 pm, when it was downgraded to a…
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →The combination of tropical moisture flowing into a line of thunderstorms and an approaching upper level disturbance allowed a train of intense thunderstorms to repeatedly cross over parts of the Tampa Bay area.
Read the full account →Hurricane Earl, a minimal Category 1 storm, came ashore near Panama City, FL early Thursday, September 3, 1998. Earl weakened to a tropical storm as it tracked northeastward through Central Georgia.
Read the full account →A departing Tropical Depression Emily left an elongated trough across South Florida in the during the day of August 1st. Daytime heating along with this trough triggered several rounds of strong storms and heavy rainfall across Miami-Dade County.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, during the predawn hours of September 16. Maximum sustained winds reached 50 knots, with gusts to 62 knots at Buoy 42039, 80 miles south of Panama City, FL. The lowest sea-level pressure was 999.6 mb at Panama City.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Colin developed over the Gulf of Mexico on June 5th and moved onshore in the Big Bend region of Florida with a minimum central pressure of 1000 mb late on the 6th.||For West-Central and Southwest Florida, Tropical Storm Warnings were issued late morning on the 5th…
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Colin developed over the Gulf of Mexico on June 5th and moved onshore in the Big Bend region of Florida with a minimum central pressure of 1000 mb late on the 6th.||For West-Central and Southwest Florida, Tropical Storm Warnings were issued late morning on the 5th…
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Colin developed over the Gulf of Mexico on June 5th and moved onshore in the Big Bend region of Florida with a minimum central pressure of 1000 mb late on the 6th.||For West-Central and Southwest Florida, Tropical Storm Warnings were issued late morning on the 5th…
Read the full account →Hurricane Jeanne followed the nearly the same path across Florida as Hurricane Frances three weeks earlier and was the unprecedented fourth hurricane to damage Florida during the 2004 hurricane season.
Read the full account →Monetary losses do not include insured losses. Fatalities are preliminary until the Florida Medical Examiner releases the official information. This document will be updated once released.
Read the full account →Monetary losses do not include insured losses. Fatalities are preliminary until the Florida Medical Examiner releases the official information. This document will be updated once released.
Read the full account →A classic heavy rainfall scenario set up along the NE Florida Atlantic Coast where a stationary surface front meandered in the lower levels with strong onshore flow on the northern side of the boundary.
Read the full account →Hermine formed in the Florida Straits south of Key West on August 28th. It remained a very disorganized tropical depression for a few days before the environment around it gradually became more favorable and it became a tropical storm late in the day on the 30th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Georges, a Category 2 storm, made landfall near Biloxi, MS early Monday, September 28, 1998. A peak wind gust of 52 knots was measured at the Gulf of Mexico data buoy 85 nautical miles south of Panama City.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure developed along a weak frontal boundary over the eastern Gulf of Mexico late in the week and stretched across the northern Florida Peninsula during the weekend.
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 Michael started as typical weak October Caribbean tropical system. However, after approximately a week of slow development, the system moved into warm Gulf of Mexico waters and rapidly intensified into a major hurricane as it moved north towards the Florida Panhandle.
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