2,548 first-hand accounts of flood events in North Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Florence made landfall on the 15th and moved slowly west while weakening through the 16th. Widespread rainfall of 4 to 10 inches, with locally higher amounts fell across western North Carolina over a 36-48 hour period, with the highest totals reported along the…
Read the full account →An isolated severe thunderstorm in Waynesville downed numerous limbs and power lines. One thousand people power lost power as well. A cluster of thunderstorms moved from northern Cleveland county, east-southeast and became severe in the eastern portions, downing numerous trees.
Read the full account →A weak mid level disturbance moved across the area during the early morning hours, interacting with a very moist airmass. This allowed for a large cluster of slow moving showers and storms to develop and produced heavy rain and several reports of flash flooding across portions…
Read the full account →A weak mid level disturbance moved across the area during the early morning hours, interacting with a very moist airmass. This allowed for a large cluster of slow moving showers and storms to develop and produced heavy rain and several reports of flash flooding across portions…
Read the full account →A weak mid level disturbance moved across the area during the early morning hours, interacting with a very moist airmass. This allowed for a large cluster of slow moving showers and storms to develop and produced heavy rain and several reports of flash flooding across portions…
Read the full account →A weak mid level disturbance moved across the area during the early morning hours, interacting with a very moist airmass. This allowed for a large cluster of slow moving showers and storms to develop and produced heavy rain and several reports of flash flooding across portions…
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across western North Carolina throughout the afternoon into the evening. Several of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts in the Piedmont.
Read the full account →Widespread heavy rain showers and scattered thunderstorms developed north of a warm front across western North Carolina throughout the 25th into the 26th.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms during the late morning into the early afternoon developed in a moist and unstable air mass with a deep plume of tropical moisture flowing into central North Carolina in advance of an approaching mid level disturbance from the…
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms during the late morning into the early afternoon developed in a moist and unstable air mass with a deep plume of tropical moisture flowing into central North Carolina in advance of an approaching mid level disturbance from the…
Read the full account →A band of showers and thunderstorms developed during the early evening in a moist and unstable environment. The band produced heavy rain across potions of the western Piedmont of central North Carolina during the early evening hours, resulting in isolated flash flooding and…
Read the full account →A prolonged convective event with deep moist southerly flow in an unstable environment with strong wind shear generated supercell thunderstorms across Southeast Tennessee and Southwest North Carolina.
Read the full account →An upper-level low became cut-off over the southern Appalachian region for several days leading to persistent rainfall and eventually some flooding.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
Read the full account →The center of Tropical Storm Isaias tracked north just inland of the Middle Atlantic Coast from late Monday night, August 3rd through Tuesday morning, August 4th.
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