Flood Threat Update: Heavy Rain Threat Ends in North Carolina, Virginia

It's been an active few days of flash flooding in the East, but the threat of deluges is diminishing.

Flood watches and flash flood watches were scheduled to continue through Tuesday morning in parts of eastern North Carolina and eastern Virginia.

Roads were still reported flooded and impassable in Newport News and Hampton, Virginia early Tuesday morning. A roof collapsed due to the weight of accumulated rain in Emporia, Virginia, and flood waters forced an evacuation of an apartment complex in the city of Hampton Monday.

Smithfield, Virginia, just across the James River from Newport News, picked up a whopping 11.60 inches of rain through early Tuesday.

Compounding the problem in this area are persistent northeast winds over the ocean, thanks to the combination of high pressure over Atlantic Canada and the weak low over the Virginia Tidewater. This is adding coastal flooding to this waterlogged scenario, blocking rivers from draining to the ocean. 

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Flooding has also been reported on several rural roads near the I-95 corridor southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina. Several roads were closed in Warren County, North Carolina, early Tuesday. A weather station near the town of Warrenton measured 8.81 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending early Tuesday morning.

- Lake City, Florida reported 10.38 inches of rain in the 24-hour period from Friday morning into Saturday morning.

- A rock slide affected parts of Interstate 64 in Charleston, West Virginia, on Saturday.

- On Sunday, flash flooding struck parts of Georgia, including Valdosta and the Atlanta suburb of Newnan.

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A strong cold front sweeping into the Midwest will eventually gave the East Coast front a swift kick in the backside, sending it flying out into the Atlantic on Wednesday.

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