SUMMARY OF HURRICANE DENNIS EFFECTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
415 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2005

...SUMMARY OF HURRICANE DENNIS EFFECTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA...

AS HURRICANE DENNIS MOVED THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN SEA AND GULF OF
MEXICO THE OUTER FRINGES AFFECTED SOUTH FLORIDA FROM FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY. SEVERAL SQUALLS MOVED ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY FROM FRIDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. OVERALL DAMAGE AS A WHOLE ACROSS SOUTH
FLORIDA WAS MINOR AND CONSISTED MOSTLY OF UPROOTED TREES OR TREE
LIMBS BLOWN DOWN CAUSING SOME DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES...VEHICLES AND
POWER LINES. THERE WERE NO KNOW DIRECT DEATHS OR INJURIES BUT ONE
INDIRECT DEATH.

MOSTLY MINOR FLOODING...BOTH COASTAL AND RAINFALL...WERE OBSERVED.
ALONG THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST A MAXIMUM STORM SURGE OF 2.6 FEET
WAS MEASURED AT NAPLES PIER WITH A MAXIMUM STORM TIDE OF 4.2 FEET.
THIS RESULTED IN MINOR COASTAL FLOODING AND BEACH EROSION. ALONG THE
SOUTHEAST COAST THE MAXIMUM STORM SURGE WAS LESS THAN ONE FOOT.

OFFICIAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE 72 HOUR PERIOD FROM FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY RANGED FROM ONE TO NEARLY SEVEN INCHES WITH AN AVERAGE OF TWO
TO FOUR INCHES ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH FLORIDA. THE PEAK AMOUNT WAS
6.89 INCHES IN PERRINE WITH 5.03 INCHES IN HOLLYWOOD AND FORT
LAUDERDALE WITH 4.36 INCHES.

PEAK MEASURED WIND GUSTS AT LAND LOCATIONS INCLUDED...
69 MPH AT MIAMI BEACH
68 MPH AT FLAMINGO
67 MPH AT OPA LOCKA AIRPORT
64 MPH AT TAMIAMI AIRPORT IN WEST KENDALL
58 MPH AT NORTH PERRY AIRPORT IN PEMBROKE PINES
54 MPH AT NAPLES AIRPORT
53 MPH AT VIRGINIA KEY
51 MPH AT MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
50 MPH AT POMPANO BEACH AIRPORT
47 MPH AT FORT-LAUDERDALE HOLLYWOOD AIRPORT

THE ANEMOMETER ON THE C-MAN STATION FOWEY ROCKS LIGHT AT AN
ELEVATION OF 150 FEET ABOVE THE SURFACE REPORTED A PEAK WIND GUST OF
84 MPH.

WCM

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Thanks for the summary... that about wraps it up.