Florida

Storms in Florida in 2015

1,200 events in 296 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Florida in 2015, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Florida in 2015 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Florida

The year

Events
1,200
Deaths
27
Injuries
84
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
296

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind69549$1.5 million
Hail11201$317,000
Lightning77435$4.4 million
Flood6823$17 million
Heavy Rain5900
Coastal Flood5200
Flash Flood4700$3.2 million
Tornado3005$429,000
Funnel Cloud2800
Rip Current251530
High Surf321
Astronomical Low Tide200
Wildfire100
High Wind100

Every episode, month by month

January 2015

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May 2015

June 2015

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September 2015

October 2015

November 2015

December 2015

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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.