Flood — Lee, Florida

2025-08-10 · near Sanibel, Lee, Florida

Event narrative

Local broadcast media shared a photo of street flooding resulting from heavy rain near Sanibel.

Wider weather episode

A surface trough across the peninsula coupled with broad low- to mid-level inverted troughing over the eastern gulf enables moist south to southeast flow over the peninsula, leading to clusters of slow-moving, deep convection with heavy rain producing flash flooding in parts of Lee County during the early morning hours, and in parts of Pinellas County during the evening hours.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1293436. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.