2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Steep mid level lapse rates along with sufficient instability and deep layer shear ahead of a cold front brought a couple of rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the region. Damaging wind gusts were reported across the Florida panhandle.
Read the full account →Steep mid level lapse rates along with sufficient instability and deep layer shear ahead of a cold front brought a couple of rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the region. Damaging wind gusts were reported across the Florida panhandle.
Read the full account →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 →Heavy rainfall of three to five inches in less than eight hours caused localized flooding of low-lying roads and areas of poor drainage from Lutz in Hillsborough County north to Crystal River in Citrus County.Over 70 percent of the strawberry crop in Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk…
Read the full account →The Walton County EMA reported storm surge heights of five feet and heavy wave action caused moderate beach erosion to beaches which were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Bay County EMA reported storm surge heights of three to four feet caused moderate beach erosion.
Read the full account →Seven to eight inches of heavy rainfall caused flooding of low lying areas of northern Pinellas county from Safety Harbor northwest to Tarpon Springs.
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 →A very moist, tropical airmass in the wake of Tropical Storm Colin remained across east-central Florida. An approaching weather disturbance aloft combined with a sea breeze boundary near the Brevard County coast caused training of showers and storms.
Read the full account →Increasing astronomical tides during the approaching new moon (8/23) combined with increasing NNE winds, and building swells from Hurricane Erin increased local tidal levels through the day, with peak inundation in the evening along the Atlantic coast around high tide, which was…
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike moved west to west-northwest across eastern Cuba, just offshore the south central coast, and then crossed through western Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storm force winds and two tornadoes were reported in the Florida Keys.
Read the full account →Hurricane Wilma produced tropical storm force winds across much of southwest and west central Florida. However, much of the damage was limited to downed tree limbs and localized flooding.
Read the full account →A cluster of slow moving thunderstorms sat over portions of Washington and Jackson county during the evening hours of April 12th and lingered into the overnight hours.
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 →Heavy rainfall of three to five inches in less than eight hours caused localized flooding of low-lying roads and areas of poor drainage from Lutz in Hillsborough County north to Crystal River in Citrus County.Over 70 percent of the strawberry crop in Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk…
Read the full account →A collision of three boundaries including the east coast sea breeze moving inland, and two outflow boundaries, one from the south and one from the west, converge under and intensifying thunderstorm over the Fort Caroline area.
Read the full account →A series of weak surface low pressure systems draped across the the deep south including the central Florida peninsula combined with an approaching cold front over a very saturated airmass triggered a cluster of storms over Nassau county that produced a strong outflow that…
Read the full account →Hurricane Michelle after forming into a depression in the southwest Caribbean Sea on October 29 drifted north and became a tropical storm on October 31 and a hurricane on November 2.
Read the full account →The Walton County EMA reported storm surge heights of five feet and heavy wave action caused moderate beach erosion to beaches which were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Bay County EMA reported storm surge heights of three to four feet caused moderate beach erosion.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Fay affected South Florida on the 18th and 19th of August. The storm made landfall early in the morning of the 19th near Cape Romano, and moved over inland sections of South Florida during the morning and afternoon hours of the 19th, exiting the area near Lake…
Read the full account →Large rainbands associated with a low pressure area near South Florida (not associated with Hurricane Milton in the southern Gulf of Mexico) entered the Atlantic metro areas of South Florida bringing heavy rain and multiple round of showers overnight October 6th into the morning…
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Debby moved across the area from the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Deep tropical moisture combined with a stalled frontal boundary across north Florida over a period of several days caused extensive, flooding rainfall, as well as historic river flooding on the St.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Debby moved across the area from the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Deep tropical moisture combined with a stalled frontal boundary across north Florida over a period of several days caused extensive, flooding rainfall, as well as historic river flooding on the St.
Read the full account →Excessive rains caused localized heavy flooding from Boca Raton to Miami Beach. The greatest official 24-hour rainfall was 13.75 inches at Pompano Beach with over 7 inches reported at Boca Raton and Miami Shores.
Read the full account →As a shortwave passed across South Florida on March 30th, the surface heating and substantial moisture supported an afternoon of instability leading to active showers and thunderstorms.
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