Flood, Inland Dade
- When
- December 10, 9:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Inland Dade forecast zone
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $13 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Florida, December 10, 2000
A stalled front contributed to producing up to nearly 14 inches of rain in 5 hours over portions of south Miami-Dade County. Westchester and Cutler Ridge to 5 inches from Hialeah and north Miami Beach.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $13 million
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
A stalled front contributed to producing up to nearly 14 inches of rain in 5 hours over portions of south Miami-Dade County. Rainfall amounts in south Miami-Dade ranged from 3 inches at Homestead General Airport to 13.9 inches at Homestead Air Reserve Base with amounts elsewhere from 10 inches in south Miami...Westchester and Cutler Ridge to 5 inches from Hialeah and north Miami Beach. Potato and corn crops were 80% destroyed. Roadways and a few neighborhoods were flooded. Two teenage boys in Sweetwater, died by electrocution as they waded across Flagler Street near 102 Avenue SW and touched a street light pole. A third person died when he drove his vehicle into a canal.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Extreme Cold in Missouri, December 10 to 31, 2000
- Extreme Cold in North Dakota, December 10, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Missouri, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 10 to 11, 2000
- High Wind in Colorado, December 10, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Winter Storm in Illinois, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 10 to 11, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Kansas, December 10 to 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Iowa, December 10 to 11, 2000
More
Every storm in Florida in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, December 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5166855.