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Flash Flood — Roanoke, VA

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 790847). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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