Flash Flood, Lee
- When
- June 13, 5:39 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, 5 mi N of Sanford
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.475, -79.171 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Farrell Road was closed due to high water.
Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 13, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 2:35 PM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:35 PM EST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 335 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 .UPDATED FOR RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR RALEIGH IS OPERATING USING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL ALGORITHM TO ESTIMATE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. THROUGH 330 PM GROUND TRUTH REPORTS OF ACTUAL RAINFALL HAVE CORRELATED VERY WELL WITH THE RAINFALL ESTIMATES BY THE RADAR. ALLISON CIRCULATION AND TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIME INFLUENCE ON WEATHER IN CENTRAL NC THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THIS MAY TURN INTO A PROLONGED EVENT FOR AT LEAST EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE RAH CWA. FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE EXPANDED/EXTENDED TO INCLUDE BASICALLY THE SOUTHEAST 2/3RDS OF CENTRAL NC EXCEPT THE NORTHERN TIER THROUGH THURSDAY. THE WATCH IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT...ANSON AND RICHMOND... WILL ALSO BE EXPANDED INTO MONTGOMERY...THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT FIGURING THAT THE MAIN CONFLUENCE BAND AND REPEAT CONVECTION WILL SHIFT FURTHER EAST CLOSER TO A RALEIGH-FAYETTEVILLE LINE. CLOUDINESS AND THE THREAT OF RAIN WILL REMAIN HIGHEST...WITH POPS GREATER THAN 50 PERCENT...IN THE EASTERN HALF THROUGH FRIDAY. LOWER CHANCE POPS WILL REMAIN IN THE WESTERN HALF. GIVEN THE COOLER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BEING OBSERVED IN THE FREQUENT RAINBAND ZONES...MAX TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER THAN GUIDANCE IN THE EAST THE NEXT TWO DAYS WITH A BROADER RANGE EDGING CLOSER TO GUIDANCE IN THE WEST. FCSTID = 28 RDU 70 78 69 80 / 90 70 50 50 GSO 68 80 68 82 / 70 50 30 30 FAY 71 77 70 80 / 90 90 50 50 .RAH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST PIEDMONT....AND THROUGH THURSDAY FOR xTHE RESEARCH TRIANGLE AND SOUTHERN PINES AREAS SOUTH AND EAST IN CENTRAL NC.
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:36 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
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 13 to 14, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2001
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: 5250941.