Tropical Storm — Seminole, 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 overnight period while weakening to a Category 1 hurricane approximately 80 miles west of Sanford. A long duration of damaging winds occurred across Seminole County, with a period of gusts to minimal hurricane force. The highest measured sustained wind was recorded at the Orlando/Sanford Airport ASOS (KSFB; 55 mph from the southeast at 0151LST on September 11) and the highest measured peak gust was 75 mph from the southeast at 0231LST. A preliminary damage assessment from the county listed 5,130 affected residential and business structures, with an additional 762 with minor damage, 180 with major damage and 25 destroyed. A total of
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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.