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Flash Flood — Nash, NC

Jun 17, 2020

A slow moving upper-level low combined with a surge of warmer and more moist air that moved over a cooler air mass near the surface produced multiple rounds of rain, showers, and thunderstorms across the Coastal Plain and the northeast Piedmont of North Carolina during the morning hours. Widespread rain fell across the area during the previous day or two saturating the soil and raising stream and creek levels. A narrow corridor of heavy rain moved across this area overnight and during the mornin

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 904866). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Nash, NC

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