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Rainfall Totals In Tampa Bay From Hurricane Debby

Hurricane Debby was well off the West Coast of Florida, but still dumped much rain around the Tampa Bay area. If you’re wondering what the rainfall totals in Tampa Bay…

Rainfall Totals In Tampa Bay

Rainfall Totals In Tampa Bay

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Hurricane Debby was well off the West Coast of Florida, but still dumped much rain around the Tampa Bay area. If you’re wondering what the rainfall totals in Tampa Bay are from Hurricane Debby well there are some pretty large numbers. Hurricane Debby will dump as much as 20 inches of rain in Georgia and South Carolina, as it stalls out before moving off to the northeast. Now the Tampa Bay area didn’t get 20 inches of rain but some places got into the double digits of rain including a few in Manatee County that got around 15 inches of rain.

Rainfall Totals In Tampa Bay

In Hillsborough County Ruskin is the city that had the most amount of rain with 10.54 inches. Riverview followed Ruskin with 9.02 inches of rain. In Pinellas County Pinellas Park ended up getting the most rain with 12.11 inches additionally, St. Petersburg and Clearwater Beach both had over 10 inches each. Down in Manatee County, this is where the most amount of rain fell. Lakewood Ranch ended up getting 16.56 inches of rain. Also, Parrish ended up getting 14.66 inches of rain. Two other cities in Manatee County also got over 10 inches of rain. Sarasota County also saw three cities with over 10 inches of rain. Siesta Key had 12.57 inches, Sarasota had 11.88 inches and Osprey had 10.82 inches of rain.

Pasco County didn’t have one city that had over 10 inches of rain. Wesley Chapel had the most with 8.96 inches of rain, while Holiday had 8.55 inches. Inland counties didn’t have as much rain as the coastal counties. The city and Polk County that had the most was Mulberry was 7.06 inches of rain. In the northern counties which was closer to where the storm hit didn’t see as much rain as other counties in the Tampa Bay area. Spring Hill in Hernando County had 6.77 inches of rain and Floral City in Citrus County had 7.04 inches of rain.

Those are some big rainfall totals in Tampa Bay from Hurricane Debby.

Kevin is a member of Tampa Bay‘s Hometown Morning Krewe on 995 QYK. He has been with the station for 25 years, is a Tampa native, and went to Jesuit High School and USF. Go Bulls!. He is passionate about all things Tampa Bay. Kevin writes articles on the ongoing road projects around the Tampa Bay area, awards that Tampa Bay cities and businesses have won and country music happenings around the Bay area. He is always doing many things with his wife and kids. He loves to read books and play video games in his spare time.