2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →The combination of high moisture content air and a slow moving negatively tilted upper trough, along with a boundary stalled across the area resulted in areas of very heavy rain during the morning into the afternoon.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →Remnants of Tropical Storm Fred moved north from the Gulf Coast states into the Central Appalachians. Strong low level shear and abundant tropical moisture sparked low topped, rotating thunderstorms which helped spawn two brief EF-0 tornados in Wilkes County.
Read the full account →A cold front draped northeast to southwest over Virginia and eastern Tennessee moved south and through central North Carolina in the late evening hours.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over eastern sections of North Carolina retrograded westward during the afternoon and evening as a surface low formed along the front. Ongoing showers and storms become more numerous in the late morning and into the early evening hours.
Read the full account →Unusually high levels of moisture for early February combined with a slow-moving frontal system to produce an extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall across western North Carolina from the morning of the 5th until the early morning hours of the 7th.
Read the full account →Unusually high levels of moisture for early February combined with a slow-moving frontal system to produce an extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall across western North Carolina from the morning of the 5th until the early morning hours of the 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Eta moved from the eastern Gulf of Mexico, across the northern Florida peninsula, to off the South Carolina coast throughout the 11th and 12th.
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 →Unusually high levels of moisture for early February combined with a slow-moving frontal system to produce an extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall across western North Carolina from the morning of the 5th until the early morning hours of the 7th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irene made landfall during the morning of the 27th, near Cape Lookout, as a large category 1 hurricane on the Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
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 →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 →Major Hurricane Matthew moved up the southeast coast and slowly weakened to a category 1 storm as it moved up along the South Carolina coast and then eastward near the North Carolina coast.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front moving into the area coupled with deep upper low settling southward into the Tennessee Valley region set the stage for multiple rounds of convection during the afternoon into the evening. Some of these storms produced large hail and flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front moving into the area coupled with deep upper low settling southward into the Tennessee Valley region set the stage for multiple rounds of convection during the afternoon into the evening. Some of these storms produced large hail and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Major Hurricane Matthew moved up the southeast coast and slowly weakened to a category 1 storm as it moved up along the South Carolina coast and then eastward near the North Carolina coast.
Read the full account →Major Hurricane Matthew moved up the southeast coast and slowly weakened to a category 1 storm as it moved up along the South Carolina coast and then eastward near the North Carolina coast.
Read the full account →Major Hurricane Matthew moved up the southeast coast and slowly weakened to a category 1 storm as it moved up along the South Carolina coast and then eastward near the North Carolina coast.
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