2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Rain developed in association with a cold front during the evening of the 21st and continued for much of the following 24 hours across western North Carolina, with total rainfall amounts ranging from 3 to 4 inches across the southern mountains to around 2 inches in the Piedmont.
Read the full account →Rain developed in association with a cold front during the evening of the 21st and continued for much of the following 24 hours across western North Carolina, with total rainfall amounts ranging from 3 to 4 inches across the southern mountains to around 2 inches in the Piedmont.
Read the full account →Multiple disturbances rotating around an upper-level low across the Ohio Valley produced multiple clusters of showers and storms across central NC during the late evening and overnight hours.
Read the full account →Multiple disturbances rotating around an upper-level low across the Ohio Valley produced multiple clusters of showers and storms across central NC during the late evening and overnight hours.
Read the full account →A strongly unstable air mass combined with an upper level disturbance to trigger numerous thunderstorms across the northern Piedmont, with a few reports of wind damage and one report of flash flooding.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and storms developed during the afternoon and evening across central North Carolina in a warm, moist and unstable atmosphere. Multiple storms develop over Wilson, North Carolina and continuously redeveloped across the city.
Read the full account →High precipitable waters of around 2.0 inches, from the combination of gulf Stream moisture from a Bermuda high and low level flow parallel to a front zone stalled across the region, resulted in heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches across central NC.
Read the full account →High precipitable waters of around 2.0 inches, from the combination of gulf Stream moisture from a Bermuda high and low level flow parallel to a front zone stalled across the region, resulted in heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches across central NC.
Read the full account →The remnants of Harvey increased the southwesterly flow over Central North Carolina as it moved northeastward through Tennessee and Kentucky. In the wake of the northward moving warm front, a cold front moved into and stalled over Central North Carolina providing lift in the…
Read the full account →The remnants of Harvey increased the southwesterly flow over Central North Carolina as it moved northeastward through Tennessee and Kentucky. In the wake of the northward moving warm front, a cold front moved into and stalled over Central North Carolina providing lift in the…
Read the full account →The remnants of Harvey increased the southwesterly flow over Central North Carolina as it moved northeastward through Tennessee and Kentucky. In the wake of the northward moving warm front, a cold front moved into and stalled over Central North Carolina providing lift in the…
Read the full account →As remnants of Florence lifted north of the area, scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon due to strong differential heating within the pronounced mid-level dry slot, east of the center of the circulation.
Read the full account →As remnants of Florence lifted north of the area, scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon due to strong differential heating within the pronounced mid-level dry slot, east of the center of the circulation.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front as it moved through central North Carolina. A few of the storms became severe, producing damaging winds.
Read the full account →Remnants of Alberto were moving north through TN, with a nearly stationary front extending ESE through the southern Appalachians, southern NC and offshore. Southerly flow into the boundary resulted in increasing temperatures, moisture and instability.
Read the full account →A stalled front over the region interacting with a very moist and slightly unstable atmosphere resulted in slow moving thunderstorms across central NC.
Read the full account →A stalled front over the region interacting with a very moist and slightly unstable atmosphere resulted in slow moving thunderstorms across central NC.
Read the full account →A stalled front over the region interacting with a very moist and slightly unstable atmosphere resulted in slow moving thunderstorms across central NC.
Read the full account →A stalled front over the region interacting with a very moist and slightly unstable atmosphere resulted in slow moving thunderstorms across central NC.
Read the full account →A stationary surface low over western North Carolina, and a pair of outflow modulated fronts over North Carolina and Virginia, were overspread by perturbed south southwesterly flow around an anomalous mid to upper low over the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →A stationary surface low over western North Carolina, and a pair of outflow modulated fronts over North Carolina and Virginia, were overspread by perturbed south southwesterly flow around an anomalous mid to upper low over the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →A stationary surface low over western North Carolina, and a pair of outflow modulated fronts over North Carolina and Virginia, were overspread by perturbed south southwesterly flow around an anomalous mid to upper low over the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Upper low closed off over eastern Ohio, with high precipitable water values over central and eastern North Carolina with improving deep layer shear and 1500-3000 J/kg of MLCAPE fueled numerous storms and storm clusters from early afternoon through the evening.
Read the full account →A broad upper level trough with a slow-moving frontal boundary extending from Texas to upstate New York brought an extended period of mainly light to moderate rainfall that began on the afternoon of the 10th and persisted well into the evening of the 11th.
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