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The strongest wind speed in Polk County was a gust of 86 mph (138 km/h) at an Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) weather station near Bartow. Winds damaged many homes and businesses, uprooted trees, and downed power lines. [24] About 80% of Polk County was left without electricity. [176]
Periodic wind gusts of 40-60 mph, highest in bands, are expected in the tropical storm warning area. Helene’s expected tropical-storm-force winds are expected to extend up to 300 miles east of ...
Low wind shear and warm waters favored strengthening, [1] and the storm intensified into a hurricane on September 29. [2] Early on October 1, following a period of rapid deepening , Matthew reached Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale , with peak sustained winds of 270 km/h (170 mph) while offshore of northern Colombia . [ 2 ]
Highest wind and lowest pressure sampled till then in U.S. [31] Okeechobee: 1928: September 16–17: Palm Beach–Lake Okeechobee, Florida peninsula Yes No Yes 4 Led to Herbert Hoover Dike [32] Unnamed: 1929: September 27–October 1: Key Largo Northwest Florida: No No Yes 3 Gusted to 150 mph (240 km/h) [33] Unnamed: 1933: September 3–4 ...
A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was recorded on a tower in Punta Gorda. Orlando recorded a wind gust of 105 mph (170 km/h). The winds damaged or destroyed thousands of homes, knocked down tens of thousands of trees, and left more than 2 million Floridians without power. Charley also spawned nine tornadoes across the state.
This heavy rain contributed to September 2022 being the wettest month on record for Orlando, [97] and combined with Hurricane Nicole in November, led to Orlando recording their wettest meteorological autumn on record in 2022. [98] Orlando International Airport recorded wind gusts of up to 74 mph (119 km/h). [99]
A Florida woman who allegedly snatched a three-year-old boy from his fenced-in yard and ran off down the street last week told the cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she “gave it back ...
Initially, forecasters predicted tides up to 14 feet (4.3 m) above normal along the East Coast of Florida, near the potential location of landfall. [2] However, the National Hurricane Center later noted that storm surge up to 10 feet (3.0 m) would occur along the East Coast of Florida, as high as 13 feet (4.0 m) in Biscayne Bay, and a height of 11 feet (3.4 m) of the West Coast of Florida.