2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Sep 16, 9:00 AM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1000 AM EDT MON SEP 16 2002 LAST SIGNIFICANT AREA OF PCPN NOW MOVING OUT OF STATE...AS WINDS ALOFT ARE SHIFTING WEST AND TAKING OUT THE UPPER MOISTURE. HOWEVER.... MHX SOUNDING STILL QUITE UNSTABLE AND GOOD MOISTURE STILL POURING IN AHEAD OF SFC TROF...SO WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A FEW SHOWERS OR TRW THIS AFTERNOON IN MY EASTERN COUNTIES AFTER THE SUN COMES OUT. TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE. .RAH...NONE. GL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads around Rocky Mount were flooded including Halifax Road, Country Club Drive, and Englewood School Road.
Several roads off Highway 97 were closed due to flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, September 2002
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: 5317922, 5317923.