Flash Flood — Stanly, North Carolina

2025-06-13 · near Norwood, Stanly, North Carolina

Event narrative

Flooding was reported along Indian Mound Road. There were numerous other reports of flooded roads in the area east of US Highway 52 to Lake Tillery, south of Stoney Gap Road, and highway 24/27.

Wider weather episode

A slow moving area of low pressure across Missouri brought deep and copious moisture across the southeastern United States and the Carolinas. Scattered to numerous showers and storms developed in the early afternoon and peaked in the early evening hours before waning by the late evening. Storms merged with an inland penetrating sea-breeze, leading to several flash flooding reports in Moore and Stanly Counties.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1267422. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.