Oct 11, 2018
Hurricane Michael made landfall along the Florida panhandle as major hurricane (Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale) on Wednesday afternoon, October 10th, 2018, then tracked northeastward with the northern portion of the storm circulation tracking across portions of Southside, Virginia Thursday afternoon, the 11th. A deep flow of tropical moisture into the Appalachians and central mid Atlantic region ahead of the storm began to generate excessive rainfall across portions of the region as earl
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 788635). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Danville (c) County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.