Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Hallandale Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Hollywood, FL, 3 miles north of Hallandale Beach at 9 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.8 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 65.1 inches over 94 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 67% of the year's precipitation (43.6 of 65.1 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 89 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 85°F and 8.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 59 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 65.1 inches is more than at 112 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (90%). Aventura, 2 miles south, has its own station (N Miami Beach #2, FL): 68.4 inches a year, 3.3 more than here, and the same August average high, 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 7 miles north, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 18 miles from Hallandale Beach, 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 269 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Hallandale Beach: 159 thunderstorm wind reports, 48 floods, 29 lightning strikes, 26 flash floods and 7 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 20, and the NWS estimated $38.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 25, 1997. June has had the most flash floods, 9 of 26. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 246 have had fewer than Hallandale Beach.

Flood insurance policyholders in Hallandale Beach's ZIP code 33009 have filed 2,035 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $67.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 2000: 459 claims (23% of all) and $8.3 million, then June South Florida Flooding in 2024 with 255 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 131. 56% 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, 281 have fewer than Hallandale Beach.