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Flash Flood — Yadkin, NC

Sep 16, 2018

Hurricane Florence made landfall on the far southeast North Carolina coast on September 14th and tracked very slowly across South Carolina before slowly re-curving across far western North Carolina and southwest Virginia as a Tropical Depression and on into the Ohio Valley. Multiple incidents of strong winds, flash flooding and flooding occurred with Florence. The first rainfall of any significance was during the late afternoon and evening of the 14th as several outer bands of Florence affected

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 785063). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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