Flash Flood in Sampson County, North Carolina

Flash Flood May 28, 2020 · Sampson County, North Carolina

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Multiple roads were reported washout across central Sampson County, including near Highway 24 and Summerhill Road, Curtis Ivey Road and Summerhill Road, Six Runs Church Road and Old Warsaw Road, and the 5000 block of Dave Bright Road.

The wider storm

Multicellular to transient supercell thunderstorms produced strong to isolated damaging wind gusts over the Piedmont and Sandhills. Thunderstorms also anchored along a quasi-stationary outflow boundary over Sampson County and produced significant flooding from Clinton to Turkey.

Began near Turkey (34.9900, -78.2100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 894122. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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