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Flash Flood — New Hanover, NC

Aug 9, 2024

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 before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and Georgetown. The storm then moved northwest to near the SC/NC border and weakened to a tropical depression on August 8 before quickly becoming a non-tropical low pressure system. The storm's main impact across southeastern NC was fl

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1207314). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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