Flash Flood — Cherokee, North Carolina

2021-03-28 · near Hothouse, Cherokee, North Carolina

Event narrative

Streams were out of their banks and flooding yards.

Wider weather episode

A major weather system that brought damaging thunderstorms and flooding rainfall to the Tennessee Valley also had impacts, although lesser, in southwestern North Carolina. The ground was already near saturation due to heavy rains from a few days earlier.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 951373. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.