5 inches, causing extensive ponding of water on roads across county.
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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.
The episode as NWS ILM wrote it up.
Afternoon and evening rains measured 2.5 to 3.5 inches, causing extensive ponding of water on roads across county.
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:31 UTC.
6 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains measured 3-4 inches, mainly in the western half of the county, causing ditches fo flood over roadways.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains measured around 3 inches caused flooding of ditches and ponding of water across roads in the western half of the county.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains neasuring 3-4 inches caused flooding of roads in the Southeast part of the county.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains measured 3-4 inches, with the heaviest accumulation in the southeast area, causing flooding of ditches and extensive standing water.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains measured 3-4 inches, setting record for a February day at Wilmington airport. Extensive ponding of water occurred, and Carolina Beach Lake overflowed.
Heavy afternoon and evening rains measured 3-4 inches and flooded many roads, as well as houses near NC53 East of Burgaw
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, February 1998
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: 5634415, 5634521, 5634524, 5634414, 5634522, 5634523.