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Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
The last time Tampa Bay was hit by ... flooded if Milton’s 15-foot storm surge comes to fruition. Tampa Bay was last hit by a major hurricane in 1921, when just a few hundred people lived in ...
The Tampa Bay area is particularly vulnerable to storm surge due to its low-lying geography, said Dennis Smith, an urban planner and professor at Florida State University’s Department of Urban ...
In the Tampa Bay area, at least 17 people died due to Helene. 12 people were killed due to storm surge in Pinellas County and another 5 died directly and indirectly in Hillsborough County. [43] By the morning of September 26, 2024, thousands in the Tampa Bay area were experiencing power outages. [44]
The 1848 Tampa Bay hurricane (also known as the Great Gale of 1848) was the strongest known hurricane to impact the Tampa Bay area of the U.S. state of Florida.Along with the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane and Hurricane Milton in 2024, it is one of only three major hurricanes to make landfall along Central Florida's west coast since Florida became a United States territory in 1821.
The National Hurricane Center’s peak storm surge forecast map released on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall somewhere along the state’s west coast.
The cities near the mouth of Tampa Bay saw some of the worst storm surge in memory during Helene even though the storm landed more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the north. Now forecasters say the low-lying region could be hit with 15 feet (5 meters) of storm surge. “This isn’t water that rises slowly. This is fast-moving water with waves.
A storm deployed weather sensor on the public beach at Anna Maria Island, near the mouth of Tampa Bay, reported 84-mph sustained winds, with a gust to 106 mph at 10 p.m, said Tyler Fleming, a ...