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Flash Flood$3.0M damage

St. Tammany, LA · Sep 11, 2024

Hurricane Francine formed as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on September 9, 2024, and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall near Houma, Louisiana, on the morning of September 11.

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Flash Flood$3.0M damage

Wilkes, NC · Sep 27, 2024

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 hurricane late Thursday, September 26, and moved quickly northward into the southeastern states, and then turned slightly northwestward towards the southern Appalachian Mountains overnight into Friday morning,…

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Flood$3.0M damage

Charles Mix, SD · Jun 20, 2024

A multi-day significant heavy rainfall event from June 20-22 resulted in widespread rain totals between 5 and 10 inches with pockets in excess of 15 inches across portions of southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$300.0M damage

Decatur, GA · Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael started as typical weak October Caribbean tropical system. However, after approximately a week of slow development, the system moved into warm Gulf of Mexico waters and rapidly intensified into a major hurricane as it moved north towards the Florida Panhandle.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$300.0M damage

Dougherty, GA · Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael started as typical weak October Caribbean tropical system. However, after approximately a week of slow development, the system moved into warm Gulf of Mexico waters and rapidly intensified into a major hurricane as it moved north towards the Florida Panhandle.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$300.0M damage

Inland Pender, NC · Sep 14, 2018

Hurricane Florence began its long Atlantic trek from the Cape Verde Islands in early September. It made landfall near Wrightsville Beach during the morning of September 14th.

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Tropical Storm$3.0M damage

Seminole, FL · Oct 9, 2024

Hurricane Milton moved ashore the west-central Florida coast as a category 3 hurricane on Oct 9 around 1930EST. The system continued slowly in an east-northeast trajectory across central Florida, becoming a category 1 hurricane before emerging into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape…

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Tropical Storm$3.0M damage

McDowell Mountains, NC · Sep 27, 2024

Tropical Cyclone Helene began organizing over the western Caribbean on the 23rd and 24th of September before rapidly intensifying as it moved north through the eastern Gulf of Mexico on the 25th and 26th.

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Tropical Storm$3.0M damage

Abbeville, SC · Sep 27, 2024

Tropical Cyclone Helene began organizing over the western Caribbean on the 23rd and 24th of September before rapidly intensifying as it moved north through the eastern Gulf of Mexico on the 25th and 26th.

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Tropical Storm$3.0M damage

Greater Burke, NC · Sep 27, 2024

Tropical Cyclone Helene began organizing over the western Caribbean on the 23rd and 24th of September before rapidly intensifying as it moved north through the eastern Gulf of Mexico on the 25th and 26th.

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Flash Flood$1.4M damage

Ottawa, MI · Jun 20, 1997

During Friday, June 20th, very warm, moist and unstable air was in place across much of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, ahead of a strong, slow-moving cold front across the western Great Lakes region.

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Flash Flood$28.0M damage

Broward, FL · Apr 12, 2023

A nearly stationary front began to move slowly northward across South Florida on April 12th, focusing deep moisture over the region. An mid to upper level low pressure over the NW Gulf of Mexico and an upper level jet stream over the eastern Gulf of Mexico contributed to…

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Flash Flood$600.0M damage

Hardin, TX · Aug 27, 2017

Harvey moved across the Gulf of Mexico into the central Texas Coast during the last week of August. After the initial landfall, the cyclone moved back into the gulf a couple days later and then made another landfall in Southwest Louisiana during the morning of the 30th.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Clark, AR · Dec 24, 2009

A strong but slow-moving low pressure system began its approach to Arkansas on the 23rd. Ahead of this low, unseasonably large amounts of moisture were drawn northward from the Gulf of Mexico. The approach of the low set off heavy rain and thunderstorms on the 23rd and 24th.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Muhlenberg, KY · Feb 16, 2025

Significant flash flooding occurred over west Kentucky, as anomalously high amounts of low-level moisture streamed northward over a warm front that became stationary along the Tennessee border.

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Flash Flood$1.2M damage

Hancock, OH · May 15, 2025

A broad, negatively-tilted mid level trough was slowly moving east across the lower Great Lakes during the overnight into early morning hours of May 15, 2025.

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Flood$5.5M damage

Tulare, CA · Jan 10, 2023

A strong low pressure system moved through central California on January 9 and 10. This system picked up a deep moisture fetch of tropical origin while tracking rapidly eastward across the Pacific and produced widespread heavy precipitation across the area between the morning of…

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Flood$549.0M damage

Butte, CA · Feb 12, 2017

Additional heavy rain brought widespread flooding of small streams and rivers, with some flooding of main stem rivers. Wet conditions from previous storms brought saturated ground and elevated reservoirs, with flood control releases.

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Flash Flood$1.2M damage

Clarke, AL · Apr 14, 2018

A deep upper level low moved into the lower Mississippi Valley and pushed a cold front into the southeast states. The front temporarily stalled over portions of southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama during the afternoon and evening of April 14th.

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Flood$2.5M damage

Aurora, SD · Jun 20, 2024

A multi-day significant heavy rainfall event from June 20-22 resulted in widespread rain totals between 5 and 10 inches with pockets in excess of 15 inches across portions of southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota.

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Flash Flood$25.0M damage

Steuben, NY · Aug 18, 2021

The moisture and remnants of Tropical Storm Fred moved across parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeast United States between August 18 to 20. As this feature moved over the central parts of New York and northeast Pennsylvania it produced locally heavy rainfall and severe flash…

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$250.0M damage

Miller, GA · Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael started as typical weak October Caribbean tropical system. However, after approximately a week of slow development, the system moved into warm Gulf of Mexico waters and rapidly intensified into a major hurricane as it moved north towards the Florida Panhandle.

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Storm Surge/Tide$2.5M damage

Cameron Island, TX · Jun 19, 2024

The difference between unusually strong (for late June) high pressure over the southeast U.S. and broad low pressure in the southwest Gulf brought a gradual increase in wave energy and rising tides (coastal run up) on the Lower Texas coast barrier island.

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Tropical Storm$2.5M damage

Barnwell, SC · Sep 27, 2024

Tropical Storm Helene formed in the NW Caribbean Sea on September 24. Helene moved northward into the Gulf of Mexico where it strengthened into a hurricane on September 25.

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