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Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event.. St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 ...
A gauge in St. Petersburg, Florida, recorded 5.09 inches of rain in an hour on Wednesday night. In total over 22 hours, a gauge at St. Petersburg's Albert Whitted Airport reported 18.31 inches of ...
A flash flood emergency was in effect for Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, the hurricane center said, after parts of the area were blasted with more than 16 inches of rain.
Both Tampa and St. Petersburg set records for consecutive days in which the high temperature did not reach 60 °F (16 °C), and Tampa experienced ten consecutive days with a low temperature below freezing. [16] [17] Much of the area received a "wintry mix" of rain and sleet on January 9–10. [18]
In the greater St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, area alone, 320,000 people evacuated ahead of the storm in what was a national record for the largest evacuation of a single county in history. [23] [24] The large number of refugees from the storm put a strain on facilities, highways, and contingencies.
The first flood in St. Petersburg city occurred 3 months after its founding, on the night of 19 to 20 August 1703. The water rose more than 2 meters. The water rose much higher on 20 September 1706, which in his letter to Alexander Menshikov, Peter I described as "the west-south-west wind brought the flood undescribed before. In my offices, it ...
St. Petersburg saw 15 to 18 inches of rainfall, while areas in and around Tampa saw 12 to 13 inches of rain. Even counties further inland saw historic levels of rain, well after the hurricane hit ...
A combination of storm surge, high astronomical tides, and heavy rainfall caused the St. Johns Rivers and its nearby tributaries to reach historic levels. In Downtown Jacksonville , the river at the Main Street Bridge crested at 5.57 ft (1.70 m) NAVD88 , about 1.45 ft (0.44 m) higher than the previous record set during Hurricane Dora in 1964.