Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Coral Springs, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, FL, 8 miles southeast of Coral Springs at 14 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 59°F. September is the wettest at 8.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 56.6 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 67% of the year's precipitation (38.2 of 56.6 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 86 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 93 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 56.6 inches is more than at 83 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (66%). Coconut Creek, 5 miles east, has its own station (Pompano Beach Airpark, FL): 55.9 inches a year, 0.7 less than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 16 miles southeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 27 miles from Coral Springs, has risen 1.62 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 99 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 159 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Coral Springs: 92 thunderstorm wind reports, 29 lightning strikes, 21 floods, 10 flash floods and 7 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 17, and the NWS estimated $11.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on March 17, 2003. October has had the most flash floods, 4 of 10. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 181 have had fewer than Coral Springs.

Flood insurance policyholders in Coral Springs's 4 ZIP codes have filed 1,713 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 337 claims (20% of all) and $544,000, then Flooding in 1979 with 327 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 299. 75% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 340 Florida cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 274 have fewer than Coral Springs.