Apartments flooded in Madeira BeachĪngela Robbins, of Madeira Beach, thought the worst of the storms were over by 11:30 pm on Saturday night. This one was less damaging, but no less bothersome.ġ0:22 a.m. Petersburg, Desonie was facing another flood. On Sunday, a little more than three months since the storm that gutted his Shore Acres house in St. Max Chesnes 3:30 p.m.: Already soaked from Idalia, Shore Acres residents face more floodingĮric Desonie floated in his kayak beside the RV he has called home since Hurricane Idalia sent a half-foot of water into his living room. “With an El Nino, we’ll likely see more of these systems come from the Gulf.”

We don’t have many of these each year,” Close said. Northwest Hillsborough County saw up to 3.5 inches, while areas further inland, like Lakeland, received about 2 inches. Sunday, according to Close.Īs for rain, most of the Tampa Bay region saw between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of rainfall as of Sunday afternoon, Close said. No tornadoes touched down in the bay area, and a there was only one tornado warning, in the Port Charlotte area north of Fort Myers, which went out around 3 a.m. Throughout the Tampa Bay region, wind speeds never reached tropical storm strength, which is a sustained wind - not a gust - of 39 miles per hour, Close told the Tampa Bay Times.

About an hour later, Hillsborough County saw its highest wind gust of 47 miles per hour at Tampa International Airport, according to weather service data.

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