Tropical Storm — Okeechobee, Florida
September 10, 2017 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Category 3 Hurricane Irma made landfall near Naples during the late afternoon of September 10. Irma then moved northward across west-central Florida during the evening while weakening to a Category 2 hurricane approximately 60 miles west of Okeechobee. A long duration of damaging winds occurred across Okeechobee County, with a period of gusts to minimal hurricane force. The highest measured sustained wind was recorded at the Okeechobee Airport ASOS (KOBE; 46 mph from the southeast at 2215LST on September 10) and the highest measured peak gust was 71 mph at 2035LST. A preliminary damage assessment from the county listed 585 affected residential structures, with an additional 239 with minor damage, 99 with major damage and 8 destroyed. The total estimated damage cost was $157 million. Damage
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.