2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A slow moving cold front dropped south and into central North Carolina on May 28th. Showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of the front across southern portions Virginia during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →During the early morning hours Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The tropical storm tracked north into Central North Carolina from daybreak through noon tracking along Interstate 95.
Read the full account →A cold front and surface trough west of North Carolina approached in the afternoon and evening hours. Ahead of the boundary, scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across the southern Piedmont and tracked east-northeast into the central to eastern Piedmont and Coastal…
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary upper low over northern Alabama, combined with a plume of tropical moisture, produced record rainfall over portions of Brunswick and New Hanover Counties.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary upper low over northern Alabama, combined with a plume of tropical moisture, produced record rainfall over portions of Brunswick and New Hanover Counties.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary upper low over northern Alabama, combined with a plume of tropical moisture, produced record rainfall over portions of Brunswick and New Hanover Counties.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms over south central Ashe County produced radar-estimated rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches in a few hours. Flooding was reported along portions of Call Creek which rose over 8 feet according to NC DOT sources, with a bridge flooded and a home affected as…
Read the full account →Widespread rain, along with multiple embedded lines of showers and low-topped thunderstorms developed across Western North Carolina throughout the 14th within a highly sheared, weakly unstable air mass ahead of a cold front.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front over the western North Carolina piedmont during the early morning hours. The training storms produced very heavy rain from Shelby to the Charlotte metro area, which resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →After heavy early morning rain caused flash flooding, moderating rainfall contributed to slower rises, but continued and additional flooding along numerous creeks and streams across the county. Numerous low lying roads and bridges were washed out.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed near the Blue Ridge during early-to-mid afternoon, then organized into a cluster of showers and storms as they moved into the Piedmont during the late afternoon, where isolated, brief damaging winds occurred.
Read the full account →After a night of moderate to heavy rainfall, flooding developed during the morning along some creeks and streams between Kannapolis and Concord, causing several roads to be closed. Water levels on the Rocky River increased to 20 feet above normal.
Read the full account →The cold front that was over the region on the 29th, made limited progress eastward on the 30th. This feature continued to serve as the focus for afternoon and evening shower and thunderstorm development.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hermine moving northeast along the Southeast Coast then off the Mid Atlantic Coast produced tropical storm force winds, minor to moderate coastal flooding, and locally heavy rainfall across portions of Coastal Northeast North Carolina from midday Friday, September…
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →A major/complex frontal system brought widespread rain with embedded thunderstorms to western North Carolina, mainly during the afternoon of the 9th.
Read the full account →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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