I had to partially cheat and look it up, online and through pictures. I thought it was probably Frances in 2004 and after looking back at things, that is what I would consider it to be.



Tropical Storm Frances
45 mph sustained at my house perhaps (officially around 65 mph at the time)
Passed about 15 miles to the north/northeast of me
September 5 and 6, 2004
Tampa, Florida



More indepth...



2012 ... Debby ... (way to the north)

Water came slightly over the seawall, but the storm was not close to me. More like around the Big Bend area. (But I had walking catfish come into my neighborhood, from this and another rainstorm around the time that flooded things, which made it notable to me.)



2007 ... Barry ... (actually came over me, from my side of the state)

Reduced to a tropical depression before landfall and the water was simply high, close to coming over the seawall.



2004 ... The year I would consider the last real time I was impacted somewhat ...



August 13, 2004 ... Charley ... (no impact, was to the south)

This is why I started following hurricanes. Didn't hit me, but got us much more in the preparation mood. We put everything inside the house as high as possible in case of flooding. Brought in metal furniture from the patio, rather than just throwing it into the pool. No plywood at the time.



September 5 and 6, 2004 ... Frances ... (from the other side of the state)

After Charley we started paying more attention to hurricanes. My dad got plywood and we boarded up the house.

This is the maximum wind I can ever remember having here in a tropical cyclone. Looking back at the official numbers at the airport about 1 to 2 miles from me, it had a maximum sustained wind of 40mph and a highest gust of 54mph. Since I am a right on a canal just off the bay, I might have had wind a little bit higher than that. The center of the storm was about 15 miles away, but it was a band blowing water into the bay at just the right angle that caused some of the greatest impacts in the Tampa Bay region.

Water came over the seawall at my house, maybe around nine inches above it, coming several feet into the backyard and washing away some dirt. That is probably the highest we have seen. Since all the windows were boarded up, and I didn't go outside too often, it sounded worse than it was during the night.

Multiple palm trees throughout my neighborhood were blown down, including one across the street from my house. In a neighborhood over from me about a third of a massive tree fell, blocking a street. Had other parts fallen instead, it would have done major damage to a house.



September 26, 2004 ... Jeanne ... (from the other side of the state)

Florida was a constant target in 2004, so plywood remained on many of my windows and doors after Frances, leaving only some uncovered during the period from Frances to Jeanne in case of an emergency and we needed to get out an exit. Some small limbs down and my neighbors mailbox was bent in half. To prepare, my dad tied some palm trees near the house from the top to large stakes in the ground in the hopes that if they fell maybe they just might happen to fall away from the house. (unlikely, but after palm trees going down in Frances, it was worth a shot.)



1980s (early to mid perhaps) ...

I was too young to remember (or maybe not quite even born yet), but a thunderstorm, not a tropical storm, destroyed my screen enclosure over my pool. It was then replaced and the new one anchored better. Aside from that and a lightning strike around a decade ago, also in a thunderstorm, that caused damage to various things, such as a computer, intercom system and doorbell, we have been lucky. (That lightning strike did damage to multiple houses actually, some worse than ours. We have even better surge suppression now.)



I don't believe there is anything since 1921 that would have flooded my house. My house is only a little over 35 years old, and the land it sits on wasn't really here until not too long before that. But based on descriptions of the impacts to other land near me and to simulations, my house would likely have been under several feet of water if it existed for a storm such as that one. I don't even know how much wind we would have received from a storm like that. And we have not seen high wind from tropical storms or hurricanes, at least at my house, since I have lived here.

In the last few years we've removed a lot of large trees. We had a giant rubber tree in my backyard removed that was gigantic and maybe two stories tall. If we had not and it had ever fallen toward the house it would have crushed our screen enclosure and likely an upper deck, which may have take out part of the roof too. (We also removed it because the roots were destroying the pool and growing across the yard towards our neighbor's yards on both side of the house.) We have a heck of a lot less trees now, including less palm trees. Partly because we don't want them near the house and also because they are pretty much all dying due to an incurable disease. We even removed a tree in the past week and will have another one down in the next few weeks. (although those are due to damaging my driveway and my neighbors driveway)

In other preparation, our roof is better fastened too in the attic.