North Carolina, 2001

Flash Flooding in North Carolina, June 16, 2001

June 16, 2001 · NWS AKQ · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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  • Wind
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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 8:55 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 8:55 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA
955 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

RDR INDICATED HVY RAINS CONTINUING TO POUND BERTIE...HERTFORD
AND NORTHAMPTON CNTIES IN NE NC.  RDR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3 AND
8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY ACRS PORTIONS OF THESE CNTIES.
WILL DECIDE IN NEXT 10 MINUTES WHETHER TO EXTND FFW FOR BERTIE
CNTY BASED ON REPORTS AND POSSIBLE CONTINUED HVY RAIN FOR A
WHILE AT LEAST.  WILL HAVE TO WATCH HERTFORD AND NORTHAMPTON
CNTIES ALSO FOR POSSIBILITY OF WRNG.  IR SAT PIX SHOWED CLD
TOPS ARE NOT WRMG AT ALL OVR THOSE AREAS...THUS HVY RAINS
CONTINUE.  WILL GO LIKELY POPS (70) OVRNGT ACRS INLAND NE NC
WITH MENTION OF RAIN HVY AT TIMES.  WILL GO 50 POPS OVR SCNTRL
VA CNTIES AND HAMPTON RDS...AND 40 OR 30 POPS OVR WRN AND NRN
PORTIONS OF CWA.

LATEST SAT PIX/MSAS PLT/RDR SHOWED LO PRES OVR NRN PERQUIMANS
CNTY IN NE NC AND DRIFTING VRY SLOWLY N.

.AKQ...
MD...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS FuENWICK ISL TO CHINCOTEAGUE.
NC...SCA ATLC CSTL WTRS NC/VA BRDR TO CURRITUCK BCH LGT.
VA...SCA CHES BAY S OF NEW POINT COMFORT...ATLC CSTL WTRS
         CHINCOTEAGUE TO NC/VA BRDR.

GINGRICH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:46 PM EST, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD,VA
1246 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1130 PM    AULANDER                  NC   FLOOD
06/15/01   BERTIE                         MANY ROADS REPORTED
                                          CLOSED...SEVERAL HOMES
                                          EVACUATED DUE TO HIGH
  B                                        WATER.REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

PRH

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:47 UTC.

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Event by event

3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Bertie

When
June 16, 12:45 AM EST to 1:00 AM EST
Where
Bertie County, Powellsville
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
36.066, -76.967 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

One home evacuated due to high water.

Flash Flood, Bertie

When
June 16, 9:20 AM EST
Where
Bertie County, Aulander
Reported by
POST OFFICE
Coordinates
36.066, -76.967 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Business Routes 305 and 11 closed.

Flash Flood, Hertford

When
June 16, 9:30 AM EST
Where
Hertford County, Ahoskie
Reported by
POST OFFICE
Coordinates
36.359, -76.981 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Some roads closed.

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

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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: 5257078, 5257080, 5257079.