Flash Flood in Madison County, North Carolina

Flash Flood August 4, 2001 · Madison County, North Carolina

$1.7M

Damage as recorded

$2.0M

Crop damage

What the National Weather Service wrote

The most severe of the recent flash floods to affect Madison County during the summer season developed rapidly Saturday morning. Flooding was swift and extensive, destroying highway bridges, private bridges and sweeping away structures and causing a large amount of property and crop damage. A state of emergency was declared for Madison County as a result of the flash flooding, the sixth major flash flood in Madison County in two months. Flooding lingered into the afternoon, damaging or destroying businesses, churches, homes and outside wells.

The wider storm

Abundant tropical moisture, with a direct trajectory off the Atlantic Ocean, was lifted up the higher terrain of northwest Madison County, resulting in potent precipitation-producing showers and thunderstorms that became anchored because of a light mean wind flow aloft. Rain gages in the flood area recorded upwards of 4 inches of rain in just a couple of hours.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5265962. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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