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Flash Flood — Vance, NC

Oct 8, 2016

Hurricane Matthew skirted by the North Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, dropping torrential rainfall of 8 to 15 inches and producing wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph across Central and Eastern North Carolina. The large swath of 8 to 15 inches of rain across Eastern and Central North Carolina, caused devastating and life threatening flash flooding, that evolved into major and record setting river flooding along portions of the Neuse, Cape Fear, and Tar river basins. ||Matthew���s inland flood w

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 663578). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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