North Carolina, 2024Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 7, 2024
July 7, 2024 · NWS AKQ · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a frontal boundary produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding across portions of northeast North Carolina.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a frontal boundary produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding across portions of northeast North Carolina.
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 Jul 7, 12:49 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:49 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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</html>Flash Flood, Perquimans
- When
- July 7, 2:20 PM EST to 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Perquimans County, 1.67 mi W of Durants Neck to 1.69 mi W of Durants Neck
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
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- Coordinates
- 36.170, -76.350
Water was flowing across New Hope Road.
- 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.
- Heat in California, July 7 to 12, 20248 deaths · 1 event
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in Texas, July 7 to 8, 20241 injured · $356,000 · EF2 · 6 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 7, 2024$60,000 · 1.25 in hail · 15 events
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 7, 2024$17,000 · 52 kt wind · 17 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 7, 20241.5 in hail · 10 events
- Hail in Colorado, July 7, 20241.75 in hail · 9 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New Mexico, July 7 to 8, 20241 in hail · 8 events
- Hail in Colorado, July 7, 2024$2,000 · 1.75 in hail · 8 events
- Hail in Colorado, July 7, 20241.75 in hail · 6 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 7, 20241 in hail · 4 events
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 7, 202456 kt wind · 4 events
- Hail in Iowa, July 7, 20241.75 in hail · 3 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1203715.