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Heavy rainfall has been inundating South Florida for a third day in a row on Thursday, with flash flood warnings in effect from Miami to Fort Lauderdale, after Wednesday’s storms transformed ...
Fort Lauderdale’s airport remained closed Thursday after 25 inches of rain fell on the city, flooding roads, swamping cars and stranding travelers.
August 12 – Tropical Storm Bonnie moved ashore the panhandle near Saint Vincent Island as a weakening storm. Rains in the state reached 4.64 in (118 mm) in Milligan. [36] [21] August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in
The cluster of storms began to weaken by around 11:00 p.m. EDT after dropping 10–20 in (250–510 mm) of rain in the Fort Lauderdale area. [17] The day's storms also produced two brief tornadoes in Broward County, each producing EF0 -rated damage; the first one touched down near West Hollywood at 3:26 p.m. EDT while the second touched down ...
A flood watch is in place until Thursday morning as storms lash state
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.
Upon making its first U.S. landfall, the storm produced wind gusts estimated at up to 127 mph (204 km/h) in Fort Lauderdale., [11] [18] The calm eye passed between Pompano Beach and Biscayne Park, [15] lasting about an hour at Fort Lauderdale between 1630 and 1745 UTC, [18] although estimates of the time of the lull in winds varied; one source ...