Flash Flood, Stanly
- When
- September 3, 8:45 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Stanly County, Oakboro,stanfield
- Coordinates
- 35.312, -80.251 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 3, 1996
Three inches of rain in 3 hours caused several small streams near the Rocky River to overflow their banks. This briefly closed several secondary roads and flooded parking lots.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS RAH wrote it up.
Three inches of rain in 3 hours caused several small streams near the Rocky River to overflow their banks. This briefly closed several secondary roads and flooded parking lots.
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Virginia, September 3 to 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Arizona, September 3, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, September 3 to 4, 1996
- Flooding in North Carolina, September 3 to 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 3 to 4, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, September 3, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, September 3, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 3, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, September 3, 1996
- Hail in Minnesota, September 3, 1996
- Hail in Minnesota, September 3, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, September 3, 1996
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, September 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5565681.