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Flash Flood — Pitt, NC

Aug 8, 2024

Flood Cause
Heavy Rain / Tropical System

After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore. Tropical Storm Debby then came ashore in South Carolina after stalling off the southeast coast for several days. Debby gradually progressed northward through central North Carolina and eventually into southern Virginia.||The circulation brought strong moisture advection to eastern NC priming conditions for a l

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1207266). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Pitt, NC

This event is one of many recorded floods in Pitt County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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