Flash Flood — Palm Beach, Florida

2025-10-26 · near Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Florida

Event narrative

Social media depicts several stalled cars in flooded intersection of US 1 and NE 26th Street.

Wider weather episode

A frontal boundary retreating across South Florida and ample low-level tropical moisture allowed for showers and thunderstorms to produce excessive rainfall on the evening of October 26 into the early overnight of October 27 which led to flooding over portions of Southeast Florida.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1298429. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.