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Virginia Flood Stories

2,771 first-hand accounts of flood events in Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Rockbridge, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Rockbridge, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Rockbridge, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Franklin, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Patrick, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Carroll, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Carroll, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Carroll, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Patrick, VA · Aug 21, 2022

A warm front, drifting northward from the Carolinas across the lower Mid-Atlantic, triggered scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain. Strong heating during the afternoon supported surface-based CAPE values rising into the 2,000 to 2,500 J/Kg range, while precipitable water…

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Flash Flood

Tazewell, VA · Aug 5, 2022

Strong heating during the afternoon created an unstable airmass with surface-based CAPE values in excess of 3,000 J/Kg across Tazewell County and the surrounding area, while precipitable water values varied between 1.6 and 1.8 inches.

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Flash Flood

Rockbridge, VA · Aug 10, 2022

The approach of a cold front, daytime heating, and increasing low level instability, led to the development of isolated showers and thunderstorms. One of these storms reached severe levels and produced damaging winds.

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Flash Flood

Dickenson, VA · Jul 28, 2022

A frontal boundary remained parked over the Central Appalachians on the last week of July, which kept southwest Virginia suseptible to heavy downpours from daily showers and thunderstorms for a prolonged period of time.

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Flash Flood

Buchanan, VA · Jul 27, 2022

A frontal boundary remained parked over the Central Appalachians on the last week of July, which kept southwest Virginia suseptible to heavy downpours from daily showers and thunderstorms for a prolonged period of time.

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Flash Flood

Campbell, VA · Jul 31, 2022

An upper level disturbance passing along a stationary front draped across the lower Mid-Atlantic region triggered spotty thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of July 31st.

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Flash Flood

Appomattox, VA · Jul 16, 2022

A slow-moving thunderstorm developed along a stationary front stretching across Appomattox County on the afternoon of July 16th. Surface analysis just prior to the thunderstorm indicated precipitable water values in the area around 1.5 inches, while deep instability was present…

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Flash Flood

Tazewell, VA · Jul 12, 2022

A broken line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front extending from a low pressure system over the eastern Great Lakes through the mid-Mississippi River Valley.

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Flood$10K damage

Dickenson, VA · Apr 15, 2007

Rain begain early on Saturday the 14th, then diminished during the day on the 15th. The rain was associated with a storm system developing over the southeastern United States that would eventually become a major coastal storm.

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Flood$10K damage

Amherst, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Pittsylvania, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Pittsylvania, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Rockbridge, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Pittsylvania, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Pittsylvania, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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Flood$10K damage

Amherst, VA · Sep 30, 2010

On the 25th of September, a powerful area of low pressure was located over the southeastern U.S. Several weak centers of low pressure formed over the Gulf Coast area from the 26th to 28th and pushed northeast along a stationary boundary bringing very high moisture from the Gulf…

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