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More people died from drowning in this storm than during Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew combined. [5] Overall, the storm's surge, winds, and tornadoes damaged or destroyed 18,000 homes. [29] A total of 47 people died in Florida due to this storm. [4] Despite all the rainfall and tornadoes, lots of snow also dropped in the Panhandle regions of Florida.
Five people were killed in Florida by three separate tornadoes spawned by a major derecho with embedded supercells. This derecho was the southern edge of the 1993 Storm of the Century. The derecho an Cuba spawn 7 tornadoes in actual province of Artemisa and Pinar del Rio
Collectively this storm, the 1926 Miami hurricane, and the 1928 hurricane claimed over 3,280 lives in Florida—three of the state's 10 most impactful weather events in the 20th century; the 1926 storm would be the costliest of any U.S. hurricane in present monetary values.
March 13, 1993, a hurricane-force, non-hurricane storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico into Florida and up the east coast to Canada.
The Storm of the Century (1993 version) first formed in the Gulf of Mexico and then grew as it ran north. With roughly $6 billion in damage caused along the entire East Coast, the storm killed 310 ...
The strong winds left widespread wind damage, with fallen trees and power lines, damaged roofs, and lost crops. About 98% of South Florida lost power during the storm. A significant storm surge – estimated around 9 ft (2.7 m) near Marathon – inundated the Florida Keys. Rainfall during the storm reached 13.26 in (337 mm) at Kennedy Space Center.
The damage appears to be “even worse than the ‘storm of the century’ in 1993, a storm many long-time Floridians use as a measure for the destructive force of other storms. An overwhelming ...
The vast majority of snow events in Florida occurred in north Florida and the Jacksonville area. According to the National Weather Service, the record snowfall for the city of Jacksonville is 1.9 inches (4.83 cm), which fell on February 12, 1899. Tampa has a record snowfall of 0.2 inches (5.08 mm) which occurred on January 18, 1977. [8]