Power Outage in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Tornado. A small tornado began in Dania Beach on NE 6th Court just south of Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, causing mainly fence and tree damage to the surrounding neighborhood. The tornado skipped as the parent storm moved WNW across Federal Highway, with the next area of tornado damage noted at a church on NW 5th Avenue and 3rd Terrace where the west edge of the roof peeled and blew off to the east, and the front door facing north was blown in. Extensive tree damage was noted westward along Old Griffin Road next to the Dania Cut-Off Canal, then damaged at least half a dozen mobile homes in the Ocean Waterway community west of Bryan Road and east of I-95. The mobile home damage was in the form of peeled roofs, metal siding torn off, and damaged power poles. ||The tornado was rated on the high end of the EF-0 scale based primarily on damage in the mobile home park. A tornadic debris signature (TDS) was also noted on radar with this tornado. Damage totals are estimates.

April 12, 2023

Flash Flood. During the afternoon and evening of April 12th, prolific rainfall occurred across southern and central metro Broward County, including the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Dania Beach, and Wilton Manors. Showers and thunderstorms repeatedly training over this urban corridor brought multiple hours with rainfall rates of 3-6 inches/hour, with total rainfall of 15-25 inches between Noon and Midnight. The highest measured rainfall amount was 25.91 at a WeatherSTEM gauge at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, with 20 inches falling between 4 and 10 PM. This rainfall rate has less than a 0.1% chance of being exceeded in any given year, and the rainfall over most of the Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood areas has an annual exceedance probability of no more than 0.5%. ||This extremely rare rainfall led to devastating impacts and crippled neighborhoods for several days. Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport was closed for nearly 40 hours due to high standing water. Over 1,100 buildings in Fort Lauderdale suffered damage, with 766 having major damage. Fort Lauderdale City Hall sustained major water damage and was considered a complete loss. At least 38,000 cubic yards of debris was collected in Fort Lauderdale. The city of Hollywood Waste Water plant sustained damage. Damage surveys revealed high water marks of over 3 feet inside homes in the Edgewood and Melrose Park neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale, with 1-2 feet of standing water and high water marks in sections of Dania Beach and Hollywood. About 600 residents were displaced by the flood, with many being rescued from their homes by first responders. 22,000 residents were without power during the peak of the event, with the hardest hit areas remaining without it for days. Port Everglades, which supplies 100% of the fuel for the area (13 million gallons per day), suffered a 50% reduction in distribution due to submerged fuel pumps, with interruptions lasting over 10 days. This led to a fuel shortage across the area, with most South Florida gas stations having to close for days at a time. Nearly one thousand calls were made to local towing companies for abandoned/stranded vehicles in flooded water, with the number of vehicle insurance claims across the area in the thousands.||Damage totals were provided by Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood emergency management officials.

April 12, 2023

Flash Flood. Multiple reports from broadcast media and emergency managers of significant to severe street flooding in eastern Broward County from Hallandale Beach north to Fort Lauderdale and Oakland Park. Main impacts were impassable streets which caused many stranded vehicles, particularly in East Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, and Powerline Road in Oakland Park.||As much as 14.85 inches of rain fell in Hollywood from Friday morning June 3rd through Saturday evening June 4th. Most of eastern Broward County observed anywhere from 7-12 inches of rain during that same time period.

June 04, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Broadcast media reported via social media a downed tree and powerlines on Buchanan Street in Hollywood due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Estimated wind speeds in the 55 to 65 mph range.

January 16, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Florida Power and Light utility crews reported wind damage to trees in West Park associated with a strong thunderstorm that moved across the area. Wind speeds estimated to be near 60 mph based on the damage. A nearby Earth Networks weather station at Watkins Elementary School recorded a 51 mph (44 knots) wind gust at 6:43 PM EDT.

August 30, 2020

There’s a power outage in the Area, according to @insideFPL more than thousand houses and Businesses have been affected!

@MCMCares - February 25, 2023 16:23

Weston, FL (8:29 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage eve… https://t.co/JXffdqSIKo

@grid_events - February 16, 2023 13:45

@WDWNT aka. power outage??? (or is it the train automated dispatcher/signal system)

@AndrewFinegan - January 28, 2023 04:00

Authorities across the country are worried about the potential for power outages and warned people to take precauti… https://t.co/ncyvvnfMbL

@wsvn - December 21, 2022 11:00

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocks parts of Northern California; 70,000 power outages reported https://t.co/QnUT2wtJRb

@LeilaAMusic - December 20, 2022 14:14