Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Doral, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami International Airport, FL, 4 miles southeast of Doral at 29 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 61°F. June is the wettest at 10.5 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 67.5 inches over 90 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 72% of the year's precipitation (48.9 of 67.5 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 87 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 92 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 67.5 inches is more than at 116 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (93%). Hialeah, 4 miles northeast, has its own station (Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL): 62.7 inches a year, 4.8 less than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 14 miles southeast, averaged 89°F in August and 73°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 14 miles from Doral, has risen 1.26 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 76 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 227 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Doral: 130 thunderstorm wind reports, 49 floods, 28 lightning strikes, 15 flash floods and 5 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 12, and the NWS estimated $2.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on May 15, 2006. May has had the most flash floods, 4 of 15. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 203 have had fewer than Doral.

Flood insurance policyholders in Doral's 3 ZIP codes have filed 2,171 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $71.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 2000: 918 claims (42% of all) and $22.9 million, then Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 414 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992 with 36. 70% 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, 284 have fewer than Doral.