2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Ian moved across the Florida peninsula. Although the most significant impacts were south of the area, tropical storm force winds did impact Dixie county with sustained tropical storm force winds measured at Horseshoe Beach and a few trees and power lines reported down…
Read the full account →A mesoscale low pressure system developed and moved slowly east near and over the middle Florida Keys, accompanied by widespread and persistent showers and thunderstorms.
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 →On August 12, Hurricane Charley, after moving through the northwest Caribbean Sea, turned north and accelerated cross the western end of Cuba, and just west of the lower Florida Keys.
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 →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 →For the most part, Hurricane Isaac missed the eastern Panhandle and Big Bend of Florida. However, the outer remnants of Hurricane Isaac spawned a couple of funnel clouds and tornadoes, and some coastal flooding did occur across portions of Wakulla, Franklin, Gulf, and Bay…
Read the full account →Average rainfall amounts of five to eight inches with isolated amounts as high as twelve inches fell in less than twelve hours and caused flooding of homes, businesses, public facilities, roadways and rivers.
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 →A weak low level trough extended across the Okefenokee Swamp southward across the Suwanee River Valley, which triggered early morning slow moving showers and thunderstorms across Columbia 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 →A disturbance meandering across the Gulf of Mexico in combination with an upper level system across the western Gulf of Mexico lead to nearly a week of heavy rainfall across South Florida.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Impacts from Tropical Storm Nate to the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama in the NWS Tallahassee County Warning Area began Saturday afternoon on Oct 7th and lasted into Sunday.
Read the full account →Along a convergence ridge axis with a tropical moisture plume over the region allowed showers and thunderstorms to train over the same region producing flooding in Broward County.
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 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 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.
Read the full account →Dennis, a Category 3 hurricane, moved inland just east of Gulf Breeze, FL, early Sunday afternoon, July 10. The peak wind gust and lowest sea-level pressure recorded were 67 knots and 979 mb, respectively, at Buoy 42039 located 80 miles south of Panama City, FL.
Read the full account →A bubble of storm surge from Hurricane Dennis moved north along the west Florida Gulf Coast during the day. The surge peaked at Fort Myers around 3:30 AM EDT, in Pinellas County between 8-9 AM EDT, and at Cedar Key just before noon.
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