2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Storm Ophelia developed from a non-tropical low off the Southeast U.S. coast and moved northward off the coasts of northeast SC and southeast NC before making landfall at Emerald Isle, NC during the early morning of September 23, 2023.
Read the full account →Tropical moisture and heavy rain overspread western North Carolina throughout the 28th through the morning of the 29th as the center of Tropical Storm Zeta moved quickly from the mouth of the Mississippi River into the southern Appalachians.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew skirted by the North Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, dropping torrential rainfall of 8 to 15 inches and producing wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph across Central and Eastern North Carolina.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew skirted by the North Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, dropping torrential rainfall of 8 to 15 inches and producing wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph across Central and Eastern North Carolina.
Read the full account →An area of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms developed over the North Carolina Piedmont in association with a surface low and stalled frontal boundary draped over the Coastal Plain.
Read the full account →After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and…
Read the full account →A strong cold front extending from a complex surface low pressure system, |brought intense thunderstorms which produced damaging winds and very heavy rain on April 12-13. The heavy rains resulted from a deep plume of tropical moisture lifted northward ahead of the cold front.
Read the full account →Widespread amounts of three to five inches of rainfall were observed across the mountains and foothills during the 24-hour period ending with the passage of Tropical Storm Zeta across the lower mid-Atlantic region.
Read the full account →Widespread amounts of three to five inches of rainfall were observed across the mountains and foothills during the 24-hour period ending with the passage of Tropical Storm Zeta across the lower mid-Atlantic region.
Read the full account →A cold front interacted with a moist and unstable air mass to result in numerous showers and storms across central North Carolina. A few discrete cells first developed during the evening in the northwest Piedmont, resulting in reports of one to two inch hail there.
Read the full account →A cold front interacted with a moist and unstable air mass to result in numerous showers and storms across central North Carolina. A few discrete cells first developed during the evening in the northwest Piedmont, resulting in reports of one to two inch hail there.
Read the full account →A cold front interacted with a moist and unstable air mass to result in numerous showers and storms across central North Carolina. A few discrete cells first developed during the evening in the northwest Piedmont, resulting in reports of one to two inch hail there.
Read the full account →A cold front interacted with a moist and unstable air mass to result in numerous showers and storms across central North Carolina. A few discrete cells first developed during the evening in the northwest Piedmont, resulting in reports of one to two inch hail there.
Read the full account →A cold front interacted with a moist and unstable air mass to result in numerous showers and storms across central North Carolina. A few discrete cells first developed during the evening in the northwest Piedmont, resulting in reports of one to two inch hail there.
Read the full account →A series of training thunderstorms produced extremely high rainfall across portions of Patrick and Carroll Counties in Virginia during the predawn hours of August 28th.
Read the full account →Very gusty winds developed over the North Carolina Piedmont as Tropical Cyclone Ian made a second landfall as a minimal hurricane near Myrtle Beach during the afternoon of the 30th.
Read the full account →A deep upper-level trough moved slowly across the central and eastern U.S. bringing abundant moisture northward and combined with a complex frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure to bring repeated rounds of heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew skirted by the North Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, dropping torrential rainfall of 8 to 15 inches and producing wind gusts of 50 to 70 mph across Central and Eastern North Carolina.
Read the full account →A potent area of low pressure moved through the Gulf Coast states into the Southeast United States. Widespread gusty winds developed across North Carolina ahead of this low, and a line of showers and thunderstorms swept through North Carolina during the afternoon and evening…
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →As the direct storm circulation from Michael approached in the early morning hours of October 11, rainfall and strong winds began first in Watauga County in northwest NC, and progressed north and east through the day.
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