2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →A strong thunderstorm passed across the Town of West Jefferson, NC during the afternoon of August 20th, and produced rainfall rates briefly of up to 6 inches per hour.
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 →In the presence of steep low-level rates and in the vicinity of a sharpening pre-frontal surface trough, slow moving storms developed across the southern Piedmont and Sandhills during the afternoon and early evening.
Read the full account →A wave of scattered to numerous showers and storms developed from the northern Coastal Plain into the eastern Sandhills and southern Coastal Plain late in the evening of June 30th and continued into the morning hours of July 1st.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over central North Carolina slowly edged northward into Virginia. That northward movement combined with forcing aloft to produce scattered to numerous showers and storms in the evening and into the early morning hours of 25 September.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over central North Carolina slowly edged northward into Virginia. That northward movement combined with forcing aloft to produce scattered to numerous showers and storms in the evening and into the early morning hours of 25 September.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over central North Carolina slowly edged northward into Virginia. That northward movement combined with forcing aloft to produce scattered to numerous showers and storms in the evening and into the early morning hours of 25 September.
Read the full account →A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms.
Read the full account →A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms.
Read the full account →A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms.
Read the full account →A very warm and humid air mass south of an approaching backdoor front combined with passing mid level disturbances within a broad mid-level trough to produce widespread showers and storms.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna moved across eastern North Carolina during the morning hours on September 6th resulting in minor storm surge, beach erosion, and wind damage. Storm surge along the coast was estimated at 2 to 3 feet.
Read the full account →A weak trough to the west, moving into the Tennessee and Ohio Valley regions, brought several upper-level disturbances across western portions of central North Carolina.
Read the full account →A weak trough to the west, moving into the Tennessee and Ohio Valley regions, brought several upper-level disturbances across western portions of central North Carolina.
Read the full account →A weak trough to the west, moving into the Tennessee and Ohio Valley regions, brought several upper-level disturbances across western portions of central North Carolina.
Read the full account →A stalled front over the Sandhills and Coastal Plain of central North Carolina combined with an inland penetrating sea-breeze to develop isolated to scattered storms in the afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →A tropical air mass was in place, with a weak front north across Virginia. Southeast flow into the mountains and the frontal boundary set the stage for heavy rain producing showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level low pressure system moving across the Tennessee Valley triggered widespread showers and thunderstorms along the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia.
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