Coastal Flood — Coastal St. Johns, Florida

2019-11-18 · Coastal St. Johns, Florida

Event narrative

Minor tidal flooding was reported along portions of King Street in downtown St. Augustine near the San Sebastian Inlet.

Wider weather episode

Minor to moderate coastal flooding occurred due to the combined of seasonally high King Tides and strong onshore flow around a local Nor'Easter that was offshore of the SE Atlantic coast. A high risk of rip currents with a high surf for the NE FL coast was in effect with breakers of up to 7 feet mainly from St. Augustine southward.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 859222. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.