What was the last great flood of the northern Pinellas region of the Tampa Bay area (Florida)?
Flooding – Coastal History: Pinellallas County is a peninsula with a total of 587.77 miles of coastline, whichmakes it extremely vulnerable to coastal flooding. The County has experienced a number of damaging coastal floods caused by wind-driven water associated with an astronomical high tide. June 1972: Hurricane Agnes, although well out in the Gulf of Mexico, caused a wind- driven high tide of 5.6 feet, that struck Pinellas County on June 19, 1972. It caused an estimated 12 million dollars in damages to public and private property. June 1982: On June 18, 1982, Pinellas County was struck by severe coastal flooding from the “no-name” storm. The highest recorded winds from the storm were 49 mph and rainfall amounts were between four to six inches. The estimated public and private property damage from the “no-name” storm were over 16 million dollars. March 1993: The “Storm of the Century” was a very powerful winter storm which generated Category 1 “hurricane – like” storm surges. A 7.7 f
