Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2025
144 flash flood warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 144
- Busiest month
- July50 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- June 16, 202512 flash flood warnings
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
96 of 144 flash flood warnings covering North Carolina in 2025 had a flash flood report inside them; 267 of 288 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 94 minutes after it went out.
North Carolina, 2025
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash flood warnings | 144 | 96 | 33% | 288 | 93% | 94 min |
Each office's whole area, 2025
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Raleigh, NC: flash flood warnings | 71 | 49 | 31% | 160 | 93% | 110 min |
| NWS Blacksburg, VA: flash flood warnings | 77 | 41 | 47% | 173 | 77% | 94 min |
| NWS Morristown, TN: flash flood warnings | 66 | 36 | 45% | 66 | 85% | 70 min |
| NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: flash flood warnings | 13 | 11 | 15% | 42 | 86% | 75 min |
| NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC: flash flood warnings | 17 | 14 | 18% | 39 | 100% | 91 min |
| NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings | 173 | 131 | 24% | 324 | 92% | 84 min |
| NWS Wilmington, NC: flash flood warnings | 12 | 9 | 25% | 16 | 88% | 66 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Vance, Warren | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 107 min |
| May 5, 9:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 2 hr |
| May 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 3 hr |
| May 12, 12:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 5 hr |
| May 13, 8:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 3 hr |
| May 14, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 3 hr |
| May 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| May 15, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare | 3 hr |
| May 21, 1:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 3 hr |
| May 27, 10:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 3 hr |
| May 28, 2:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 4 hr |
| May 29, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 3 hr |
| May 29, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, Vance | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 107 min |
| Jun 12, 6:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 83 min |
| Jun 12, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 117 min |
| Jun 14, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 74 min |
| Jun 15, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 9 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Pitt | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 119 min |
| Jun 16, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Perquimans | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 8:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Lee | 94 min |
| Jun 16, 10:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes, Yadkin | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 4:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 2:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 93 min |
| Jun 28, 2:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 109 min |
| Jun 29, 6:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 97 min |
| Jul 1, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 4 hr |
| Jul 4, 6:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and 1 more | 14 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Lee, Orange, Randolph | 11 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Durham, Orange | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 10 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Person | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Surry, Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Orange | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes, Yadkin | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 4 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 87 min |
| Jul 14, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 104 min |
| Jul 14, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 5:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Wake | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Orange, Person | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 7:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 112 min |
| Jul 18, 8:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 10:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Orange, Person | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 8:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Stokes | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 8:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 8:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 10:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 11:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 10 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee, Moore | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Columbus | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 99 min |
| Aug 7, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 103 min |
| Aug 11, 3:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 5:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Pender | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 8:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 9:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 90 min |
| Aug 13, 11:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 83 min |
| Aug 14, 5:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 11:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 10:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 10:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 3 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Columbus | 3 hr |
| Oct 12, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Guilford County13
- Orange County12
- Wake County10
- Wilkes County9
- Alamance County9
- Durham County8
- Ashe County8
- Forsyth County7
- Johnston County7
- Nash County6
- Dare County6
- Davidson County6
- Randolph County6
- Stanly County6
- Lee County6
- Chatham County6
- Franklin County5
- Surry County5
- Onslow County5
- Northampton County5
- Harnett County5
- Montgomery County5
- Richmond County5
- Person County5
- Moore County5
- Columbus County5
- Sampson County4
- Camden County4
- Pasquotank County4
- Currituck County4
- Pitt County4
- Stokes County4
- Alleghany County4
- Vance County3
- Yadkin County3
- Bertie County3
- Chowan County3
- Duplin County3
- Cumberland County3
- Anson County3
38 more counties
- Granville County3
- Hertford County3
- Hoke County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Wayne County3
- Caswell County3
- Halifax County2
- Warren County2
- Brunswick County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Greene County2
- Beaufort County2
- Wilson County2
- Gates County2
- Rockingham County2
- Watauga County2
- Scotland County2
- Hyde County2
- McDowell County2
- Jones County2
- Pender County2
- Cleveland County1
- Martin County1
- Perquimans County1
- Alexander County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Tyrrell County1
- Washington County1
- Lenoir County1
- New Hanover County1
- Bladen County1
- Craven County1
- Pamlico County1
- Robeson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.