2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An area of thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front moved across the southern Piedmont of North Carolina during the morning, producing gusty winds that caused isolated wind damage.
Read the full account →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 →Widespread heavy rain affected the region ahead of a slow moving cold front. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches were common across western North Carolina. Quite a bit of flash flooding developed as a result of the heavy rain falling on already saturated ground.
Read the full account →A surface trough over the central North Carolina Piedmont coupled with an upper trough led to scattered thunderstorm development that eventually merged into a line of showers and thunderstorms over the northwest Piedmont.
Read the full account →A surface trough over the central North Carolina Piedmont coupled with an upper trough led to scattered thunderstorm development that eventually merged into a line of showers and thunderstorms over the northwest Piedmont.
Read the full account →A surface trough over the central North Carolina Piedmont coupled with an upper trough led to scattered thunderstorm development that eventually merged into a line of showers and thunderstorms over the northwest Piedmont.
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →A few surface boundaries, from upstream thunderstorms over Virginia and the North Carolina Foothills during the afternoon and evening on the 13th of July, converged upon and focused thunderstorm development over central North Carolina, as they settled generally southward…
Read the full account →Abundant rain advanced north into the region in advance of an area of low pressure to the west while a frontal boundary remained draped over the region. An average of 2 to 5 inches of rain fell from this system onto an already saturated ground from recent snow melt and rainfall.
Read the full account →A cold front swept through the southern Appalachian region on April 6th, exiting the area to the east during the morning hours on April 7th. This front produced several hours of moderate to heavy rainfall in the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina.
Read the full account →With a broad area of troughing persisting across the East Coast, a strong vorticity center aloft and weak surface convergence combined with a moist and moderately unstable air mass and resulted in scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly across the Coastal Plain.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →A cluster of showers and storms develop across the triangle region of central North Carolina. A few of these storms became severe and produced damaging wind gusts.
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening across the southern Piedmont of North Carolina, producing heavy rain and locally gusty winds.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm passing across the Town of Reidsville brought a third of an inch to a half inch of rain to the community during a roughly 15 minute period, with rainfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour.
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