Flash Flood — Collier, Florida

2024-06-12 to 2024-06-13 · near Everglades City, Collier, Florida

Event narrative

Public aerial drone footage revealed a flooded Everglades City with a large amount of standing water on the ground and entering resident homes. The 48 hour rainfall totals in Everglades City reached up to 14 inches on June 11 and 12th. Other areas across Collier County were highly impacted and received up to 20 inches of rain throughout the 72 hour event from June 11 though 13th. With several rounds of heavy rainfall, there was 19.72 of rain measured at the Oasis RAWS in southeastern Collier County.

Wider weather episode

A plume of deep tropical moisture streamed into South Florida during the week of June 10 through 15th as the region remained south of a stationary boundary and in close proximity to a weak tropical disturbance. Multiple mesoscale convective systems developed to the south of this boundary over Central Florida and gradually pivoted southward into South Florida during the morning and afternoon hours of June 11th, 12th, and 13th, 2024. With a very moist and warm atmospheric composition, rainfall rates were efficient and tropical in nature. Storm total rainfall of up to 20 inches occurred across NE Miami-Dade and SE Broward counties, with totals as high as 18 inches in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County. These rainfall totals resulted in major flooding across these areas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1197173. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.