Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lauderdale Lakes, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Lauderdale, FL, 4 miles southeast of Lauderdale Lakes at 16 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 58°F. September is the wettest at 10.0 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 69.0 inches over 94 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 69% of the year's precipitation (47.3 of 69.0 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 88 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 75 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 69.0 inches is more than at 121 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (97%). Lauderhill, 2 miles north, has its own station (Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, FL): 56.6 inches a year, 12.4 less than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 8 miles southeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 29 miles from Lauderdale Lakes, 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 303 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lauderdale Lakes: 179 thunderstorm wind reports, 53 floods, 44 lightning strikes, 18 flash floods and 9 heavy rain events. They killed 5 people and injured 25, and the NWS estimated $34.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 25, 1997. October has had the most flash floods, 5 of 18. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 217 have had fewer than Lauderdale Lakes.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lauderdale Lakes's ZIP code 33313 have filed 1,194 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $3.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 245 claims (21% of all) and $599,000, then Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 221 and Flooding in 1979 with 153. 72% 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, 247 have fewer than Lauderdale Lakes.