2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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.
Read the full account →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 →A trough over the Ohio valley region produced a wave of scattered to numerous showers and storms during the afternoon through mid-evening hours across the eastern Piedmont, Sandhills, and Coastal Plain of central North Carolina.
Read the full account →Heavy rain showers and thunderstorms developed over central NC in association with a series of disturbances moving through the long wave trough aloft. Deep moist advection and unidirectional flow through the atmosphere resulted in training of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Heavy rain showers and thunderstorms developed over central NC in association with a series of disturbances moving through the long wave trough aloft. Deep moist advection and unidirectional flow through the atmosphere resulted in training of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Heavy rain showers and thunderstorms developed over central NC in association with a series of disturbances moving through the long wave trough aloft. Deep moist advection and unidirectional flow through the atmosphere resulted in training of heavy rain and thunderstorms.
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 →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 →Shortwave energy tracking atop a moist low-level maritime feed off the Atlantic Ocean supported moderate to heavy rain over the northwest Piedmont of North Carolina during the morning hours on th 29th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Florence made landfall on the far southeast North Carolina coast on September 14th and tracked very slowly across South Carolina before slowly re-curving across far western North Carolina and southwest Virginia as a Tropical Depression and on into the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Widely scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening of July 11th. A few of the storms proved capable of producing locally heavy rain and isolated wind damage, supported by strong instability with CAPE values reaching as high as 2,000 J/Kg across the…
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 large area of moderate to heavy rain showers, along with embedded clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms moved slowly across western North Carolina throughout the morning and into the afternoon of the 19th ahead of a slow-moving cold front.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Michael moved through North Carolina on Thursday, October 11th. Michael brought heavy rain and strong damaging winds to central North Carolina.
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 →A strong storm system impacted the Southeast, resulting in an area of widespread heavy rain and embedded strong to severe thunderstorms that moved across western North Carolina during the late night and early morning hours.
Read the full account →One of the most significant flooding events in years occurred during November 11th and 12th, given both the amounts of rainfall and the footprint where flooding occurred.
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 →Moisture from Tropical Storm Eta was drawn northward into the Mid Atlantic during the day of Wednesday November 11th. Meanwhile, a slow moving cold front approached the area and made its way through central North Carolina during the day Thursday, resulting in widespread showers…
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.
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