While the worst of the wind stayed southwest of Orlando in DeSoto and Highlands counties, the flooding rains covered much of the Orlando metro area.
Ian churned inland during the early morning hours of Thursday, Sep. 29, creating significant issues across much of the central portions of the state.
With Ian, the core of the system pushed south of Orlando. This meant the heavy rainfall would primarily be over the Treasure Coast and South Florida, on the right side of the storm.Ian began to ingest dry air near landfall over Southwest Florida. This dry air was significant and immediately began to dry out the southern end of the storm.
The rains would finally diminish and exit into the Atlantic in the early morning hours of Friday, Sep. 30. Drainage systems can only take in so much water per hour, and those systems can sometimes back up during heavy rains.The first Flash Flood Warning for the Orlando area was issued in the overnight hours of Thursday, Sep. 29.And the flooding continued to worsen.
A 500-year flood means an area has a 0.2% chance of experiencing flooding of that magnitude in a region. The 0.2% chance is multiplied through the years, meaning there is a high chance a flood of that magnitude would occur once every 500 years.
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