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The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
Kenosha County sees extensive damage, with more than 200 homes and 3 businesses flooded; property damage exceeded $6 million. A severe thunderstorm and accompanying downburst inflicts $900,000 in damage across Sheboygan; widespread damage to homes and trees occurs and about a quarter of the city's roads become impassable. Thirty-minute rainfall ...
North Carolina is still adding up the damage done by the powerful tropical storm that started as Hurricane Helene. The day after the extreme rain and winds stopped, the full tally was unknown. But ...
Flash flood warnings in effect until 10:45 p.m. in Columbia, Dane, Dodge and Jefferson counties. Several counties in southern Wisconsin were also under flash flood warnings until 10:45 p.m ...
A person looks at storm damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. - Sean Rayford/Getty Images ‘We all really need help here’
July 26, 2003 – Tropical Depression Seven hits Georgia, dropping light rainfall in southern North Carolina. [13] September 2003 – The remnants of Tropical Storm Grace produce light rainfall across much of the state. [14] September 4, 2003 – Rip currents from Hurricane Fabian cause one drowning death near Cape Hatteras. [15]
A satellite view shows a closer view of the damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Old Fort, North Carolina, on Oct. 2, 2024. / Credit: Maxar Technologies
North Carolina's most devastating storm was named Hurricane Floyd. A Tropical Storm, Dennis, softened North Carolina by coming ashore 10 days earlier than Floyd, saturating the soil and filling the rivers. When Floyd made landfall near Wilmington in 1999, its seemingly endless rains had nowhere to go but into the streets, highways and houses.