Organized convection developed across central North Carolina in advance of a slow moving upper level trough stretching from the lower Ohio Valley south-southwestward into the lower Mississippi Valley. Locally heavily rainfall of two to three inches fell across the central Piedmont resulting in minor flooding across mostly urban areas.
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The episode as NWS RAH wrote it up.
Organized convection developed across central North Carolina in advance of a slow moving upper level trough stretching from the lower Ohio Valley south-southwestward into the lower Mississippi Valley. Locally heavily rainfall of two to three inches fell across the central Piedmont resulting in minor flooding across mostly urban areas.
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 Jul 20, 6:51 PM EST, 16 hours 24 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:16 UTC.
6 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Dover Road and Woodridge Road closed due to flooding.
Woodridge Road closed due to flooding.
Streets were flooding due to creeks overflowing at Legion Avenue and Chapel Hill Boulevard.
McCrimmon Parkway closed due to flooding between Church Street and NC Highway 54.
Morrisville Carpenter Road between Miller Road and Gratiot Road closed due to flooding.
The intersection of NC Highway 58 and Old Halifax Road was flooded due to Quankey Creek overflowing.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2014
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 534688, 534693, 534689, 534690, 534694, 534692.