Flash Flood — New Hanover, North Carolina

2024-08-07 · near (ilm)wilmington Arpt, New Hanover, North Carolina

$2K

Property damage

Event narrative

Emergency management reports a car in flood waters near the I-40 entrance ramp on Gordon Road. Emergency crews were actively recovering the vehicle at the time.

Wider weather episode

After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and Georgetown. The storm then moved northwest to near the SC/NC border and weakened to a tropical depression on August 8 before quickly becoming a non-tropical low pressure system. The storm's main impact across southeastern NC was flash/river flooding from heavy rainfall but tropical storm force wind gusts, minor coastal flooding, and 3 weak tornadoes also occurred.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1207082. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.