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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

Bladen, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Robeson, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Bladen, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Bladen, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Bladen, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Columbus, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Robeson, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Columbus, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Columbus, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Robeson, NC · Sep 15, 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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Flash Flood$10K damage

Robeson, NC · Sep 15, 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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Hurricane (Typhoon)$4.5M damage

Pasquotank, NC · Sep 18, 2003

Hurricane Isabel was a Category 1 hurricane as it crossed the Wakefield WFO county warning area. Sustained tropical storm force winds with frequent gusts to hurricane force occurred over coastal northeast North Carolina.

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Flash Flood$45K damage

Richmond, NC · Oct 8, 2016

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.

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Flash Flood

Transylvania, NC · Feb 6, 2020

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.

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Flash Flood

Caldwell, NC · Feb 6, 2020

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.

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Flash Flood

Alexander, NC · Feb 6, 2020

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.

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Flash Flood

Cabarrus, NC · Nov 12, 2020

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.

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Flood

Cabarrus, NC · Feb 6, 2020

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.

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Flood

Cabarrus, NC · Nov 12, 2020

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.

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Tropical Storm$2.0M damage

Martin, NC · Aug 26, 2011

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.

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Flash Flood$100K damage

Transylvania, NC · Apr 9, 2019

Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms developed across the North Carolina mountains during the afternoon. One severe storm produced large hail in the Brevard area.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$4.0M damage

Western Dare, NC · Sep 14, 1999

Hurricane Floyd caused the largest peace time evacuation in the nations history. He also caused massive record flooding across inland sections of eastern North Carolina.

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Flood$3.9M damage

MacOn, NC · Sep 16, 2004

In response to persistent moderate to heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, severe flooding developed across the mountains for the second time in 9 days.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Orange, NC · Nov 12, 2018

A strong low pressure system lifted northeastward into central North Carolina ahead of a strong cold front approaching from the west. There was fairly substantial lift over the region thanks to a strengthening low level jet and increasing diffluence aloft supplied by a 140 to…

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