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Heavy rain causes Tampa street flooding

A flood advisory was in effect until 4 p.m. for north-central Hillsborough County.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — When it rained Sunday afternoon, it poured, causing some street flooding for parts of Hillsborough County.

A flood advisory was in effect until 4 p.m. for north-central Hillsborough County. With the City of Tampa seeing quite a bit of reported flooding.

The city's street flooding map shows a stretch of W. Swann Ave., W. Azeele St. and Kennedy Blvd. dealing with water. As other streets are seeing smaller impacted areas. 

NWS reports doppler radar indicated heavy rain in the area due to thunderstorms and that up to two to three inches of rainfall has been recorded.

Weather service personnel are also seeing stalled cars in the downtown area of Tampa. A resident shared a photo with 10 Tampa Bay of a car on W. Swann with water halfway up its tires.

Here is a list of areas the NWS expects flooding to occur: Tampa, Egypt Lake-Leto, Tampa International Airport, East Lake-Orient Park, Palm River-Clair Mel, Greater Carrollwood, West Park, Raymond James Stadium, Ybor City, South Tampa, Soho, University of Tampa, Davis Islands, Channelside and Orient Park.

Portions of Tampa Bay were also seeing power outages earlier today as stormy weather came through. Thousands of residents in Hillsborough and Pinellas County went without power for a portion of Sunday evening. As of 8:15 p.m. power outages have subsided with TECO reporting around 100 are without power and Duke Energy is roughly reporting 1,100 customers are in the dark.

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