North Carolina, 2023Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 5, 2023
July 5, 2023 · NWS MHX · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rain and some flash flooding in the Jacksonville area, as well as around Wallace.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rain and some flash flooding in the Jacksonville area, as well as around Wallace.
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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 6:27 PM EST, 21 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 6:27 PM EST, 21 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Flash Flood, Onslow
- When
- July 5, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Onslow County, 1.49 mi SSW of Half Moon to 0.98 mi SSW of Half Moon
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 34.810, -77.460
Flooding occurred on Raintree and Gum Branch Roads, with vehicles stranded in water.
Flash Flood, Duplin
- When
- July 5, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Duplin County, Wallace to 0.6 mi ENE of Wallace
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- State Official
- Coordinates
- 34.730, -78.000
Multiple reports of vehicles stranded in Wallace were received.
- 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.
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 5, 2023$5.0 million · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 5, 20232 injured · $700,000 · 52 kt wind · 17 events
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 5, 2023$753,000 · 65 kt wind · 3 events
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 5, 2023$100,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 5, 2023$50,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, July 5, 2023$23,000 · 1 in hail · 9 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 5 to 6, 2023$15,000 · 2.5 in hail · 15 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, July 5, 20232 injured · 52 kt wind · 5 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 5, 202369 kt wind · 9 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 5, 20232.75 in hail · 7 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 5 to 6, 20231 in hail · 7 events
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 5, 202350 kt wind · 6 events
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1117546, 1117543.