Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Opa Locka, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL, 2 miles west of Opa Locka at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.9 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 62.7 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (44.5 of 62.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 83 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 100 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 62.7 inches is more than at 103 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (82%). North Miami Beach, 5 miles east, has its own station (N Miami Beach #2, FL): 68.4 inches a year, 5.7 more than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 13 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, 13 miles from Opa Locka, 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 302 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Opa Locka: 156 thunderstorm wind reports, 72 floods, 33 flash floods, 33 lightning strikes and 8 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 21, and the NWS estimated $36.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on May 15, 2006. June has had the most flash floods, 10 of 33. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 259 have had fewer than Opa Locka.

Flood insurance policyholders in Opa Locka's ZIP code 33054 have filed 366 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $6.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 2000: 107 claims (29% of all) and $1.5 million, then Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 44 and Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 22. 71% 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, 185 have fewer than Opa Locka.