Impacts of Multiple Hurricanes and Tropical Storms on Watershed Hydrological Processes in the Florida Panhandle

Hurricanes and tropical storms (TS) are infrequent but disastrous events to human lives, social activities, terrestrial ecosystems in coastal regions. Using the Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)’s Hydrologic Water Quality System (HAWQS) model, principal component analysis (PCA), factor (PFA), we estimated impacts of multiple hurricanes TS on hydrological processes agricultural forested watersheds. Five four that passed near or through Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River basin (ACFRB) Florida panhandle from 1966 2018 were selected estimate their rainfall, potential evapotranspiration (PET), (ET), soil water percolation, surface runoff, stream discharge, groundwater recharge, yield (WYLD). Simulations showed category was not highly related amounts WYLD. Based PCA PFA, PET ET negatively, rainfall discharge positively, recharge WYLD moderately positively affected by at ACFRB recent 50 years. This study provides resource managers with critical insights into how watersheds region.