2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An extended duration local nor'easter wind event developed October 9th and persisted through the 12th between high pressure wedging down the SE US coast and a sharpening coastal trough axis over the local coastal waters.
Read the full account →An extended duration nor'easter developed on September 30th and continued through October 6th. This event produced an extended period onshore flow combined with a period of high astronomical tides (spring or neap tides).
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 →Eastern rain bands associated with Hurricane Gordon produced six to eight inches of rain in less than 18 hours over parts of Lee and Charlotte counties in Southwest Florida on the 17th.
Read the full account →Eastern rain bands associated with Hurricane Gordon produced six to eight inches of rain in less than 18 hours over parts of Lee and Charlotte counties in Southwest Florida on the 17th.
Read the full account →El Nino continued to keep the storm systems rolling through Florida in December. The New Year's Eve storm was almost a carbon copy of the storm system that occurred seven days earlier.
Read the full account →A front was just north of the local area with southwest steering flow in place. The front edge closer through the day, with an influx of moisture from the Gulf and steepening lapse rates aloft with the approach of a mid level trough.
Read the full account →Northerly flow overspreading the peninsula west of a tropical disturbance (Invest 93L) approaching the state from the Atlantic results in south to southwest propagating convection that produces damaging wind gusts near Manor Ridge and Darby in Hernando and Pasco counties, along…
Read the full account →A stalled front contributed to producing up to nearly 14 inches of rain in 5 hours over portions of south Miami-Dade County. Rainfall amounts in south Miami-Dade ranged from 3 inches at Homestead General Airport to 13.9 inches at Homestead Air Reserve Base with amounts…
Read the full account →Large and powerful hurricane Floyd, approached the southeast Florida coast on September 13 and moved north of the area by September 15. Southeast Florida remained on the "weak" side of Floyd with minimal effects, mostly to marine interests.
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 →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 Gabrielle began to affect the Southwest Florida coast during the pre-dawn hours of September 14th with sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph along the coasts of Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and Lee counties.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna came ashore near Mobile, AL during the late morning hours of September 14. Maximum sustained winds were just shy of tropical storm strength prior to and during landfall.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Isidore came ashore near New Orleans, LA during the early morning hours of September 26. Maximum sustained winds reached 46 mph along the Panhandle coast. The lowest sea-level pressure recorded was 998 mb.
Read the full account →Hurricane Frances came ashore on the east coast of Florida near Sewall's Point during the early morning hours of September 5. Frances weakened as it crossed the central peninsula, and reemerged over the northeast Gulf of Mexico 24 hours later as a tropical storm.
Read the full account →Hurricane Jeanne made landfall on the east coast of Florida near Stuart on the evening of September 25. Jeanne weakened to a tropical storm over central and northwest Florida on September 26.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Bonnie passed just south of Apalachicola, FL, and came ashore along the Taylor County coast west of Perry, FL early Thursday afternoon.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Alberto made landfall near Adams Beach along the Taylor County coast, about 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee, Florida, near midday on June 13. The highest 2-minute wind measured was 36 knots at Keaton Beach around 3 pm EDT on June 13.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Alberto made landfall near Adams Beach along the Taylor County coast, about 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee, Florida, near midday on June 13. The highest 2-minute wind measured was 36 knots at Keaton Beach around 3 pm EDT on June 13.
Read the full account →Ida, a Category Two hurricane, weakened as it approached the northern Gulf Coast on November 9. It came ashore over the western Florida Panhandle coast about 30 miles east-southeast of Mobile, Alabama during the morning of November 10.
Read the full account →Claudette formed as tropical depression about 90 miles west-southwest of Tampa during the early morning hours of August 16th. Claudette moved to the northwest and strengthened to a tropical storm later in the morning.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Andrea crossed the forecast area from the Gulf of Mexico. SE Ga and NE Fl were on the northeast side of the storm...which focused onshore convergent bands.
Read the full account →On the morning of August 19th, Tropical Storm Fay came onshore in southwest Florida, moving north-northeast toward Lake Okeechobee. Fay remained well formed and actually intensified over land, exhibiting a classical tropical cyclone eye as it reached peak intensity over the…
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