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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.

Tropical Storm

Coastal Sarasota, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Inland Hernando, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Inland Lee, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Charlotte, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Pinellas, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Pinellas, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Levy, FL · Jul 7, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Citrus, FL · Jul 7, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Charlotte, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Charlotte, FL · Jul 6, 2021

Hurricane Elsa originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Atlantic east of the Windward Islands on June 30th. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Elsa on July 1st and strengthened to a hurricane on July 2nd while moving westward across the…

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Tropical Storm

Monroe/middle Keys, FL · Jul 5, 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa moved north-northwest from western Cuba, through the western Straits of Florida, and passed between the Marquesas Keys and Dry Tortugas into the southeast Gulf of Mexico.

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Tropical Storm

Escambia Coastal, FL · Jun 19, 2021

Potential Tropical Cyclone Claudette moved west of the Alabama coastal waters on the evening of June 18th, 2021. Claudette was declared a Tropical Storm and made landfall in southeast Louisiana during the early morning hours of June 19th.

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Tropical Storm

Santa Rosa Coastal, FL · Jun 19, 2021

Potential Tropical Cyclone Claudette moved west of the Alabama coastal waters on the evening of June 18th, 2021. Claudette was declared a Tropical Storm and made landfall in southeast Louisiana during the early morning hours of June 19th.

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Tropical Storm

Okaloosa Coastal, FL · Jun 19, 2021

Potential Tropical Cyclone Claudette moved west of the Alabama coastal waters on the evening of June 18th, 2021. Claudette was declared a Tropical Storm and made landfall in southeast Louisiana during the early morning hours of June 19th.

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Flash Flood

St. Johns, FL · May 3, 2013

Deep layer cyclonic flow and very high moisture content produced several days of soaking rainfall during a develop local Nor'Easter event. After locally heavy rainfall on May 2 and 3, strong onshore flow and gusty winds of 40 to 50 mph started to caused trees to come down over…

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Flash Flood

Duval, FL · Aug 24, 2024

A surface low meandered offshore of the NE FL coastal along a stalled front. Passing upper-level short wave trough energy, high moisture and slow storm motion produced locally heavy rainfall and pulse strong storms with wet downbursts in resultant storms.

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Flood

Marion, FL · Aug 24, 2024

A surface low meandered offshore of the NE FL coastal along a stalled front. Passing upper-level short wave trough energy, high moisture and slow storm motion produced locally heavy rainfall and pulse strong storms with wet downbursts in resultant storms.

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Flood$100K damage

Sarasota, FL · Nov 13, 1997

Four to six inches of rain produced localized flooding of roads and low-lying areas from the Bradenton - Sarasota metropolitan areas east to the Manatee-Hardee county line.

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Flood

Baker, FL · Jul 30, 2023

A mean westerly steering flow pushed a progressive Gulf sea breeze inland and pinned the Atlantic sea breeze between I-95 and the Atlantic coast in the afternoon where explosive convection developed over a very moist and unstable airmass.

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Flood

Alachua, FL · Jun 24, 2021

East northeasterly winds increased through the morning as high pressure wedged southward and a coastal trough developed. A weakness aloft remained over the area, with cooler temperatures aloft (-8.5 to -9.5C at 500mb) and aided in shower/thunderstorm development.

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Flood

Marion, FL · Jul 22, 2025

A trough extended across the local area, and an area of low pressure formed along the trough axis and retrograded into the Gulf of America during this period. Waves of heavy, slow moving storms produced localized flooding rainfall.

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Flood

Marion, FL · Jul 22, 2025

A trough extended across the local area, and an area of low pressure formed along the trough axis and retrograded into the Gulf of America during this period. Waves of heavy, slow moving storms produced localized flooding rainfall.

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Tropical Storm$15K damage

Coastal Palm Beach County, FL · Aug 18, 2008

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…

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Flash Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 26, 2025

A frontal boundary retreating across South Florida and ample low-level tropical moisture allowed for showers and thunderstorms to produce excessive rainfall on the evening of October 26 into the early overnight of October 27 which led to flooding over portions of Southeast…

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