2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning August 30th around 745 AM EDT along the|Florida Big Bend near Keaton Beach as a category 3, with the inner core moving NE across the|Suwannee River Valley.
Read the full account →A front was stalled across NE FL with a meandering coastal low offshore of the local Atlantic coast. Above normal atmospheric moisture, warm temperatures aloft and slow storm motion produced localized heavy rainfall over a diurnally unstable airmass with waves of gusty showers…
Read the full account →High astronomical tides, also known as king tides, in combination with the strong onshore winds and increasing northeast swell, brought minor coastal flooding to portions of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Winds reached gusts of 20 to 25 knots during the morning high tides.
Read the full account →High astronomical tides, also known as king tides, in combination with the strong onshore winds and increasing northeast swell, brought minor coastal flooding to portions of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Winds reached gusts of 20 to 25 knots during the morning high tides.
Read the full account →High astronomical tides, also known as king tides, in combination with the strong onshore winds and increasing northeast swell, brought minor coastal flooding to portions of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Winds reached gusts of 20 to 25 knots during the morning high tides.
Read the full account →A weak frontal boundary across South Florida in combination with a flow of deep tropical moisture from the western Caribbean Sea associated with the remnant of Hurricane Rina led to periods of very heavy rain and significant flooding lasting the better part of 4 days.
Read the full account →High astronomical tides, also known as king tides, in combination with the strong onshore winds and increasing northeast swell, brought minor coastal flooding to portions of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Winds reached gusts of 20 to 25 knots during the morning high tides.
Read the full account →More than 3-6 inches of rain from a Nor'easter and Tropical Storm Josephine caused flooding across the entire county. More than 16,000 students enjoyed a rare weather-related day off from classes on Tuesday, 10/8/96.
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 →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 →The outer rainbands of hurricane Floyd moved parallel to the east coast of Florida and produced tropical storm force wind gusts primarily across interior counties within West Central Florida.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gordon moved northeast across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and brought mainly 30 to 40 mph sustained winds and 50 to nearly 70 mph tropical storm force wind gusts to mainly coastal areas of Southwest and West Central Florida throughout the daylight hours of the 17th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gordon moved northeast across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and brought mainly 30 to 40 mph sustained winds and 50 to nearly 70 mph tropical storm force wind gusts to mainly coastal areas of Southwest and West Central Florida throughout the daylight hours of the 17th.
Read the full account →22:00 EST: 60 mph 5 mi south of Bunnell. 22:07 EST: 60 mph sustained in Korona. 22:23 EST: Transformers down in Bunnell. 22:26 EST: 65 mph wind gust in Flagler Beach. 22:30 EST: 55-65 mph destroyed a sun room in Palm Coast. 22:31 EST: 60 mph NW of Bunnell.
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 →Hurricane Dennis developed in the eastern Caribbean on the 5th and moved northwest and exited the northwest coast of Cuba early on the 9th. The center of Hurricane Dennis passed 220 miles east of Fort Myers Beach around 9 PM EDT on the 9th and passed 200 miles east of Cedar Key…
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 →Tropical Storm Fay made its first of four Florida landfalls at Key West shortly before 5 PM on Monday, August 18th. Maximum sustained winds were 60 mph and the minimum pressure was 998 MB.
Read the full account →Localized heavy rainfall of four to six inches in less than three hours caused urban and small stream flooding along and east of Interstate 75 corridor from Port Charlotte in Charlotte County south to Lehigh Acres in Lee County.
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 →A stalled front across central FL and strong high pressure over the mid-Atlantic region continued strong onshore flow across the local area. Above normal moisture and passing short wave trough energy from the west to southwest continued to fuel localized heavy flooding rainfall.
Read the full account →A stalled front across central FL and strong high pressure over the mid-Atlantic region continued strong onshore flow across the local area. Above normal moisture and passing short wave trough energy from the west to southwest continued to fuel localized heavy flooding rainfall.
Read the full account →A Nor'easter and Tropical Storm Josephine produced more than 6 inches of rain. This caused more than 110 streets and roads to flood through-out the downtown area. More than 12,000 JEA customers were without power overnight on the 7th.
Read the full account →Slow moving Tropical Storm Debby created significant impacts to the area for several days, including freshwater flooding, storm surge flooding, and trees and power lines blown down due to gusty winds.
Read the full account →