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2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flood

Flagler, FL · Aug 26, 2022

An inverted trough of low pressure over the area interacted with the sea breezes over a moist airmass in light flow. Aloft, broad troughing over the lower Mississippi Valley and ridging over the Bahamas continued west-southwesterly flow maintaining the anomalously moist airmass…

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Flood

Alachua, FL · Aug 23, 2022

Deep westerly flow prevailed over the region with an upper trough to the north and a ridge axis to the south. The anomalously moist airmass, with PWATs near 2.2 inches, remained over the region.

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Flood

Alachua, FL · Aug 23, 2022

Deep westerly flow prevailed over the region with an upper trough to the north and a ridge axis to the south. The anomalously moist airmass, with PWATs near 2.2 inches, remained over the region.

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Flood

Flagler, FL · Aug 26, 2022

An inverted trough of low pressure over the area interacted with the sea breezes over a moist airmass in light flow. Aloft, broad troughing over the lower Mississippi Valley and ridging over the Bahamas continued west-southwesterly flow maintaining the anomalously moist airmass…

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Flood

Columbia, FL · Aug 26, 2022

An inverted trough of low pressure over the area interacted with the sea breezes over a moist airmass in light flow. Aloft, broad troughing over the lower Mississippi Valley and ridging over the Bahamas continued west-southwesterly flow maintaining the anomalously moist airmass…

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Flood

Clay, FL · Sep 1, 2022

A frontal boundary lingered over central GA and weakened while a mid level low deepened across southeast GA and lifted northeastward. A broad surface low was over the Suwannee Valley.

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Flood

Flagler, FL · Sep 29, 2022

Hurricane Ian made landfall as a powerful Category 4 Hurricane on the SW Florida peninsula coast near Punta Gorda on Wednesday, September 28th.

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Flood

Flagler, FL · Sep 29, 2022

Hurricane Ian made landfall as a powerful Category 4 Hurricane on the SW Florida peninsula coast near Punta Gorda on Wednesday, September 28th.

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Flood

Flagler, FL · Sep 30, 2022

Hurricane Ian made landfall as a powerful Category 4 Hurricane on the SW Florida peninsula coast near Punta Gorda on Wednesday, September 28th.

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Flood

Flagler, FL · Sep 29, 2022

Hurricane Ian made landfall as a powerful Category 4 Hurricane on the SW Florida peninsula coast near Punta Gorda on Wednesday, September 28th.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Lafayette, FL · Sep 2, 1998

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Leon, FL · Sep 2, 1998

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Liberty, FL · Sep 2, 1998

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Gadsden, FL · Sep 2, 1998

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Pinellas, FL · Sep 17, 2000

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Coastal Palm Beach, FL · Nov 5, 2001

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Coastal Dade, FL · Nov 5, 2001

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.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$10K damage

Monroe/middle Keys, FL · Sep 1, 2004

As Hurricane Frances tracked from the northwest Bahamas through the central Florida peninsula, several outer rain bands crossed the Florida Keys producing short episodes of strong wind gusts.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Inland Sarasota, FL · Sep 28, 2022

Hurricane Ian formed in the central Caribbean Sea on September 23 and moved through the western Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic making four separate landfalls.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Inland Lee, FL · Sep 28, 2022

Hurricane Ian formed in the central Caribbean Sea on September 23 and moved through the western Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic making four separate landfalls.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Inland Charlotte, FL · Sep 28, 2022

Hurricane Ian formed in the central Caribbean Sea on September 23 and moved through the western Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic making four separate landfalls.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Northern Brevard Barrier Islands, FL · Nov 9, 2022

Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach, Florida as a Category 1 Hurricane on Thursday, November 10, 2023 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Mainland Southern Brevard, FL · Nov 9, 2022

Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach, Florida as a Category 1 Hurricane on Thursday, November 10, 2023 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Coastal Indian River, FL · Nov 9, 2022

Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach, Florida as a Category 1 Hurricane on Thursday, November 10, 2023 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

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