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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 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 ...
Hurricane Milton made landfall in Siesta Key around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9 as a Category 3 storm and brought storm surge and floods to much of Florida's southwest coast, but not to Tampa Bay.
Example of a SLOSH run A summary of strengths and limitations of SLOSH. Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) is a computerized model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the National Weather Service (NWS), to estimate storm surge depths resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes. [1]
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.
In Manatee County, the storm demolished much of the waterfront not only along Tampa Bay, but also Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, On Passage Key, sustained winds of 75 mph (121 km/h) and a storm surge of 10.5 ft (3.2 m). During the storm, a cyclone-induced tidal wave was reported to have washed away the island's vegetation, which never ...
Tampa Bay itself was spared the worst of the storm surge yet again, AccuWeather hurricane expert Alex DaSilva said. Tampa's remarkable streak of avoiding a direct hit from a major hurricane ...
Storm surges in Steinhatchee reached 9.63 feet (2.94 m). [155] Key West experienced storm surge of 1 to 3 feet (0.30 to 0.91 m). [156] Storm surges reached 7.18 feet (2.19 m) in Tampa. [157] Preliminary storm surge modeling has found that areas of the Big Bend experienced inundation of more than 15 feet. [158]