2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A cold front moving across the region resulted in development of a line of scattered thunderstorms over western Nouth Carolina during the late afternoon and evening. A couple of the storms produced locally damaging wind gusts in addition to an EF1 tornado in Alexander County.
Read the full account →A Piedmont trough was the focus of initially isolated thunderstorms during the mid afternoon. The storms formed over the eastern Piedmont, then became more clustered as they moved southeast and south through portions of Edgecombe, Wilson, Franklin, Wake, Wilson, Nash, Wayne,…
Read the full account →A series of mid-level trough and upper level disturbances moved across central North Carolina as a moisten laden airmass remained in place. With several locations having received heavy rainfall earlier in the week, additional rainfall of 3 to 6 inches produced flash flooding…
Read the full account →Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
Read the full account →Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
Read the full account →Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
Read the full account →Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
Read the full account →Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
Read the full account →With a deep moist air mass in place across North Carolina, a mid-level shortwave trough moved across the area during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms, many of which had heavy rain, developed in a moist and unstable environment across central NC. A series of thunderstorms developed over Davidson and Randolph Counties with multiple rounds of heavy rain that produced radar estimates of 2 to 5…
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms, many of which had heavy rain, developed in a moist and unstable environment across central NC. A series of thunderstorms developed over Davidson and Randolph Counties with multiple rounds of heavy rain that produced radar estimates of 2 to 5…
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms, many of which had heavy rain, developed in a moist and unstable environment across central NC. A series of thunderstorms developed over Davidson and Randolph Counties with multiple rounds of heavy rain that produced radar estimates of 2 to 5…
Read the full account →A cold front moving into the region helped trigger showers and thunderstorms across the Blue Ridge and foothills of North Carolina. The storms were slow movers and heavy rain producers.
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 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 →Hurricane Isaias made landfall in southeast North Carolina, then moved north through coastal North Carolina. Significant rain fell across the Coastal Plain, Sandhills and eastern Piedmont of North Carolina as Isaias moved northward through the state along with gusty winds up to…
Read the full account →Hurricane Isaias made landfall in southeast North Carolina, then moved north through coastal North Carolina. Significant rain fell across the Coastal Plain, Sandhills and eastern Piedmont of North Carolina as Isaias moved northward through the state along with gusty winds up to…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dorian was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian formed on August 24, 2019 from a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic and gradually strengthened as it moved toward the Lesser Antilles,…
Read the full account →An unusual long-duration event occurred June 7-11 as a very slow-moving upper trough and surface high across New England combined to produce several days of cool-air damming and persistent rainfall along the frontal boundary and in orographically favored areas of the Blue Ridge…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dorian was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian formed on August 24, 2019 from a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic and gradually strengthened as it moved toward the Lesser Antilles,…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dorian was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian formed on August 24, 2019 from a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic and gradually strengthened as it moved toward the Lesser Antilles,…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dorian was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian formed on August 24, 2019 from a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic and gradually strengthened as it moved toward the Lesser Antilles,…
Read the full account →An initial round of convection developed in the wake of a northwestward propagating warm front as the atmosphere became increasingly moist and unstable during the afternoon. There was a brief lull in convective activity during the evening hours.
Read the full account →Hurricane Dorian moved north and northeastward near and along the coast of North Carolina on September 5th and 6th, with Dorian making landfall along the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the morning of September 6th.
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