North Carolina, 2025Flash Flooding in North Carolina, June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025 · NWS AKQ · 3 events in 2 counties and zones
A stationary front remained stalled in the vicinity of northeast North Carolina on June 16. Scattered, slow-moving showers and storms developed along the front in the afternoon and evening, producing localized heavy rain and flash flooding across northeast North Carolina.
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- 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.
A stationary front remained stalled in the vicinity of northeast North Carolina on June 16. Scattered, slow-moving showers and storms developed along the front in the afternoon and evening, producing localized heavy rain and flash flooding across 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 Jun 15, 6:17 PM EST, 22 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:17 PM EST, 22 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>Flash Flood, Pasquotank
- When
- June 16, 5:14 PM EST
- Where
- Pasquotank County, 1.89 mi E of Elizabeth City Arpt to 1.91 mi E of Elizabeth City Arpt
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 36.252, -76.236
High water was reported along Peartree Road near Ham Overman Road.
Flash Flood, Pasquotank
- When
- June 16, 5:15 PM EST
- Where
- Pasquotank County, 0.79 mi SSW of (Ecg)elizabeth City to 0.89 mi S of (Ecg)elizabeth City
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 36.259, -76.184
High water was reported along Weeksville Road.
Flash Flood, Gates
- When
- June 16, 6:34 PM EST
- Where
- Gates County, 2.09 mi NNW of Muddy Cross to 2.03 mi NNW of Muddy Cross
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 36.399, -76.639
Water was reported over the road at Zion Road and Water Swamp 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.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 16, 2025$140,000 · EF2 · 10 events
- Rip Current in North Carolina, June 16, 20251 death · 1 event
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, June 16, 2025$600,000 · 2 events
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 16, 2025$350,000 · 78 kt wind · 2 events
- High Wind in North Dakota, June 16, 2025$100,000 · 65 kt wind · 4 events
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Texas, June 16, 2025$100,000 · 3 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 16, 2025$54,000 · 50 kt wind · 15 events
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, June 16 to 17, 2025$50,000 · 10 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 16 to 21, 2025$3,000 · EF1 · 17 events
- Flash Flood and Flood in Mississippi, June 16 to 17, 2025$27,000 · 53 kt wind · 16 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Minnesota, June 16 to 17, 2025EF0 · 35 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 16, 20251.75 in hail · 24 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: 1272177, 1272183, 1272198.