2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A stalled front across Pitt County on the evening of July 14th allowed multiple rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms to move over the same area during the evening.
Read the full account →The synoptic pattern remained little changed from the previous day with deep moisture in place. An axis of very heavy rainfall pushed north across the Carolinas in the late afternoon and evening as the weak area of low pressure over the southeast lifted slowly northward.
Read the full account →An upper ridge off the east coast and an upper low over the central U.S. combined to bring enhanced moisture into the region. Weak low pressure along a frontal boundary draped near the Virginia-North Carolina border provided additional convergence and lift to produce widespread…
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 →A slow moving thunderstorm developed during the evening of July 10th. Surface-based CAPE values ranged from 1500 to 2000 J/Kg, while Precipitable Water values were estimated to be around 1.6 inches.
Read the full account →Deep tropical moisture associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicholas was lifted northward ahead of a strong cold front. Precipitable water values ranging from 1.9 to 2.2 inches were carried into the northwestern portion of North Carolina during the evening of the…
Read the full account →A slow moving area of upper level low pressure over the Mid-Mississippi Valley pumped semi-tropical weather into the western Carolinas for a couple of days, resulting in occasional rounds of moderate to heavy in the day leading up to the 7th.
Read the full account →A very moist southeast flow developed northeast of subtropical cyclone Alberto, which made landfall across the western Florida Peninsula on the 28th and moved north across Alabama throughout the 29th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Fred made landfall in the Florida Panhandle on the 16th and lifted steadily north through Georgia and into the southern Appalachians during the 16th and throughout the 17th.
Read the full account →A slow moving area of upper level low pressure over the Mid-Mississippi Valley pumped semi-tropical weather into the western Carolinas for a couple of days, resulting in occasional rounds of moderate to heavy in the day leading up to the 7th.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms and small storm clusters developed across the North Carolina Piedmont during the evening. Several of these clusters moved over south Charlotte, where multiple storms moved repeatedly over the same locations.
Read the full account →A weak trough of low pressure over the Ohio and Tennessee valley region was in place, along with very anomalous moisture over the Carolinas. Scattered showers and storms over the Appalachians become widespread as they moved into central North Carolina in the evening and…
Read the full account →A weak trough of low pressure over the Ohio and Tennessee valley region was in place, along with very anomalous moisture over the Carolinas. Scattered showers and storms over the Appalachians become widespread as they moved into central North Carolina in the evening and…
Read the full account →A weak trough of low pressure over the Ohio and Tennessee valley region was in place, along with very anomalous moisture over the Carolinas. Scattered showers and storms over the Appalachians become widespread as they moved into central North Carolina in the evening and…
Read the full account →The remnants of a convective complex moved into an unstable environment with enhanced mid-level flow and steep low-level lapse rates. This resulted in the development of a line of storms that moved southeast through the northwestern Piedmont in the evening.
Read the full account →A mid-level disturbance coupled to a cold front draped along the western Piedmont triggered scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms across the southern to northeastern Piedmont. These storms produced several reports of flash flooding in Wake and Cumberland Counties.
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 strong area of low pressure and associated frontal system brought heavy rain to the mountains and foothills of North Carolina rom Christmas night into the 26th. A swath of 5 to 7 inches of rain fell along and close to the Blue Ridge escarpment in about 24 hours.
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 →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
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