Jun 9, 2019
An unusual long-duration event occurred June 7-11 as a very slow-moving upper trough and surface high across New England combined to produce several days of cool-air damming and persistent rainfall along the frontal boundary and in orographically favored areas of the Blue Ridge with the heaviest rainfall focused over eastern Watauga and Ashe and western Wilkes counties where rain gauges showed 2 to 3 inches in the 24-hour period ending at 0800 EDT on June 8th. The rain continued much of the 8th
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 837920). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Watauga County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.