Flash Flood in Madison County, North Carolina

Flash Flood July 6, 2003 · Madison County, North Carolina

Death

Injury

$50K

Damage as recorded

$750K

Crop damage

What the National Weather Service wrote

A section of Petersburg Road was covered with 6 feet of water near Petersburg. Several roads were flooded in and around Marshall. Mudslides also developed, one of which caused a tree to fall onto a vehicle in Grapevine, crushing the vehicle, and killing a 63-year-old woman, and injuring a 12-year-old boy. The flooding also destroyed 300 of the 1800 acres of burley tobacco crop in the county.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5334516. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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