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Florida Flood Stories

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

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Broward, FL · Oct 25, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Palm Beach, FL · Oct 25, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Broward, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 24, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Oct 25, 2020

Tropical Depression 28 over the western Caribbean, which eventually became Hurricane Zeta, helped to provide copious tropical moisture over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Jun 10, 2020

A stationary front was draped from the Carolina's through the northeastern Bahamas, with a zone of deeper moistures situated across South Florida. Prevailing east-southeasterly flow allowed for both the Gulf Atlantic sea breeze to progress inland through peak heating hours.

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Flood

Suwannee, FL · Jun 7, 2020

Deep tropical moisture was in place (PWAT 2.5) with the area on the east side of TS |Cristobal as the storm approached the LA Gulf Coast. Waves of moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated embedded thunderstorms pivoted northward across the local forecast area into the evening…

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Flood

Pinellas, FL · Nov 11, 2020

Hurricane Eta originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Caribbean Sea on October 31st. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Eta later that day and continued rapid intensification to major hurricane status on November 2nd while moving westward…

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Sep 19, 2024

With a mid-level trough over the Florida Peninsula, and a stationary front positioned over Central Florida, plentiful moisture and instability was in place over South Florida.

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Flood

Palm Beach, FL · Sep 19, 2024

With a mid-level trough over the Florida Peninsula, and a stationary front positioned over Central Florida, plentiful moisture and instability was in place over South Florida.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Escambia Coastal, FL · Sep 15, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, AL at 5am on Wednesday, September 16th as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Escambia Inland, FL · Sep 15, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, AL at 5am on Wednesday, September 16th as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Monroe/middle Keys, FL · Nov 9, 2020

Tropical Storm Eta passed northwest through the middle Florida Keys on November 8 through 9, 2020. Primary impacts from wind occurred as result of a primary rain band which drifted very slowly north through the Upper Florida Keys.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Santa Rosa Coastal, FL · Sep 15, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, AL at 5am on Wednesday, September 16th as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Okaloosa Coastal, FL · Sep 15, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall in Gulf Shores, AL at 5am on Wednesday, September 16th as a strong Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Coastal Collier County, FL · Nov 11, 2020

A tropical wave, turned tropical depression, moving westward across the western Caribbean Sea abruptly formed into an intense Category 4 hurricane before making landfall over western Nicaragua on November 3rd, with a minimum central pressure of 923 mb just before landfall, and a…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Escambia Coastal, FL · Jun 7, 2020

Tropical Storm Cristobal moved west of the Alabama coastal waters on the afternoon of June 7th, 2020. Cristobal made landfall in southeast Louisiana at 5 pm CDT on June 7th with estimated maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Coastal Pasco, FL · Nov 11, 2020

Hurricane Eta originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Caribbean Sea on October 31st. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Eta later that day and continued rapid intensification to major hurricane status on November 2nd while moving westward…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Pinellas, FL · Nov 11, 2020

Hurricane Eta originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Caribbean Sea on October 31st. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Eta later that day and continued rapid intensification to major hurricane status on November 2nd while moving westward…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Pinellas, FL · Nov 11, 2020

Hurricane Eta originated from a tropical depression that formed in the central Caribbean Sea on October 31st. The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Eta later that day and continued rapid intensification to major hurricane status on November 2nd while moving westward…

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