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North Carolina Flood Stories

2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood$10K damage

Guilford, NC · Jan 9, 2024

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…

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Davidson, NC · Jan 9, 2024

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…

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Flash Flood

Henderson, NC · Jan 9, 2024

A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.

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Flash Flood

Caldwell, NC · Jan 9, 2024

A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.

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McDowell, NC · Jan 9, 2024

A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Durham, NC · Jan 3, 2022

A strong upper level low moved from the Midwest into the Mid Atlantic from January 2nd into the 3rd. Strong storms to isolated severe storms preceded the arrival of the low along with a broad area of 2 to 4 inches of rain along United States Highway 1 corridor, producing…

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Wake, NC · Jul 7, 2022

A stalled frontal boundary to the north from the Mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and northern Virginia led to early morning storms north of the Carolinas.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Wake, NC · Sep 23, 2023

Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall across southeastern North Carolina. Ophelia tracked north-northwest into the northern Coastal Plain of central North Carolina by midday, then into eastern Virginia by the early evening hours.

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Flash Flood$300K damage

Brunswick, NC · Sep 16, 2018

Hurricane Florence began its long Atlantic trek from the Cape Verde Islands in early September. It made landfall near Wrightsville Beach during the morning of September 14th.

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Wayne, NC · Aug 8, 2024

Tropical Depression Debby slowly made its way through Florida, off the South Carolina coast, then back inland through the western Piedmont of North Carolina during the evening hours of 8 August 2024.

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Flash Flood

Bladen, NC · Sep 16, 2024

Potential Tropical Cyclone #8 located off the SC coast was classified by the National Hurricane Center on September 15 and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for the entire coast of southeast NC and northeast SC at that time.

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Flash Flood

New Hanover, NC · Sep 16, 2024

Potential Tropical Cyclone #8 located off the SC coast was classified by the National Hurricane Center on September 15 and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for the entire coast of southeast NC and northeast SC at that time.

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Brunswick, NC · Sep 16, 2024

Potential Tropical Cyclone #8 located off the SC coast was classified by the National Hurricane Center on September 15 and a Tropical Storm Warning was issued for the entire coast of southeast NC and northeast SC at that time.

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Flash Flood

New Hanover, NC · Aug 9, 2024

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…

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Flash Flood

Durham, NC · Aug 30, 2024

A frontal boundary moving south from east-central Virginia into central North Carolina combined with a disturbance aloft and produced numerous showers and storms in the afternoon to late evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Wayne, NC · Aug 30, 2024

A frontal boundary moving south from east-central Virginia into central North Carolina combined with a disturbance aloft and produced numerous showers and storms in the afternoon to late evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Wayne, NC · Aug 30, 2024

A frontal boundary moving south from east-central Virginia into central North Carolina combined with a disturbance aloft and produced numerous showers and storms in the afternoon to late evening hours.

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Flash Flood

Wayne, NC · Aug 30, 2024

A frontal boundary moving south from east-central Virginia into central North Carolina combined with a disturbance aloft and produced numerous showers and storms in the afternoon to late evening hours.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Alamance, NC · Sep 24, 2024

A stalled frontal boundary over central North Carolina slowly edged northward into Virginia. That northward movement combined with forcing aloft to produce scattered to numerous showers and storms in the evening and into the early morning hours of 25 September.

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Flash Flood$200K damage

Mecklenburg, NC · Apr 30, 2020

An area of widespread rainfall developed across the western Carolinas in advance of a cold front late on the 29th into the early morning hours of the 30th.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, NC · Aug 6, 2025

Within cool northeasterly surface flow, several upper-level disturbances tracked across central North Carolina from a persistent weak trough of low pressure over the Ohio Valley region. Copious amounts of moisture remained from the 5th of August.

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Flash Flood

Caldwell, NC · Aug 8, 2024

The remnants Tropical Storm Debby made landfall in the Florida Big Bend on the 5th, lifted steadily northeast across southeast Georgia before turning north through the South Carolina coastal plain and the North Carolina Piedmont on the 7th and 8th.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Guilford, NC · Aug 9, 2024

As the remnants of tropical cyclone Debby lifted into Pennsylvania, a cold front remained draped across western North Carolina. Anomalous moisture remained across the area, along with antecedent conditions being wet for early August.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Guilford, NC · Aug 9, 2024

As the remnants of tropical cyclone Debby lifted into Pennsylvania, a cold front remained draped across western North Carolina. Anomalous moisture remained across the area, along with antecedent conditions being wet for early August.

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