Jul 9, 2022
A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms. Very high moisture, deeply warm low levels, and slow storm motion produced high rainfall rates and flash flooding, ranging from nuisance flooding in most places to road closures in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Wake county. Isolated damaging winds were also reported in Sampson County.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1047649). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Wake County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.