North Carolina rainfall totals from Chantal with data from 50+ sites

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall near Litchfield, South Carolina, around 5 a.m. early Sunday morning, the storm turned northward — with a major portion of rain dumped to the west of the circulation.

Chantal weakened to a tropical depression and generally went north, crossing over Raleigh, but the western location of the storm’s intense rainfall cells took the flooding over an area generally south of the Triangle, then northwest to Moore County, and then northward.

The path of the storm — along with the rotation of torrential rainfall repeatedly over some areas — took the worst of Chantal over Lee, Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Person counties.

The track and continued rotation of sheets of rain meant massive amounts of water in a generally vertical band running just west of Wake County and east of Guilford County.

The images with this list have estimated rainfall totals from radar.

Below are rainfall totals collected via gauges and instruments and provided by the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, which provides data to the National Weather Service.

Note, some locations are marked from a distance from a town or city in a different county.

LOCATION - MILES          RAIN INCHES

Alamance County

Burlington 3.9 NNW       8.01  
Mebane    3.0 SSW     9.73  
Burlington 3.2 SSE    6.71  
Chapel Hill 12.8 W    8.17  
Burlington 2.2 SW     6.00

Chatham County

Goldston 3.8 N               7.94      
Siler City 2.7 SSW    6.50 
Pittsboro 5.0 NE       10.37 
Apex 9.2 WNW              2.62      
Pittsboro 5.4 WSW     9.44 
Sanford 10.0 N             5.74  
Siler City 7.2 NE     7.54  
Pittsboro 3.3 NNW     10.35     
Chapel Hill 6.8 S     6.4
Chapel Hill 5.9 SW       10.05
Pittsboro 8.3 SW       6.53
Pittsboro 10.7 NW       6.86 
Pittsboro 8.8 NNE      11.53
Fearrington 1.4 SW     8.55  
Siler City 8.1 ENE    8.14 
Siler City 6.6 ENE     9.10
Pittsboro 6.3 E     5.95      

Cumberland County

Fayetteville 2.4 S      2.26
Hope Mills 4.8 SE       2.85  
Linden 4.2 S              1.36
Hope Mills 0.5 WSW      2.69  
Fayetteville 3.0 WSW      1.67 
Fort Bragg 2.0 S       1.76  

Durham County

Durham 1.2 NW       2.63  
Durham 9.1 NNE    1.58  
Durham 6.8 NNW    4.42       
Durham 5.8 NW    8.23        
Durham 5.2 NW       7.19        
Chapel Hill 4.9 SSE   4.30   
Durham 4.5 SW      3.87      
Durham 4.5 N      1.95       
Durham 4.5 E     0.99       
Durham 5.9 SSW       3.31        
Durham 2.3 SW       2.40       
Durham 6.5 SSW   3.27      
Durham 4.6 WNW    8.46      
Durham 8.1 NNW    4.96  
Chapel Hill 4.9  SE 3.88
Bahama 4.6 W      4.72      

Granville County

Oxford 2.5 WSW       1.01 
Creedmoor 4.3 E   0.33

Harnett County

Coats 0.7 W              1.10   
Lillington 2.0 W      1.92  
Fuquay-Varina 6.1 SSW     1.11 
Lillington 0.7 WNW     1.82
Spring Lake 5.7 NNW     1.91  


Hoke County

Raeford 9.6 E     2.66 
Fayetteville 10.8 WSW      3.20
Red Springs 3.8 NW      3.45  


Johnston County

Clayton 5.5 S            0.70
Zebulon 2.5 SSE      0.46  
Four Oaks 5.7 NW      0.3


Lee County

Sanford 6.6 S     3.40 
Sanford 6.0 N      4.43


Moore County

Whispering Pines 2.1 NE    5.79  
Whispering Pines 1.0 SW       7.20 
Aberdeen 0.7 NW            6.94 
Pinehurst 4.6 NNE              7.45
 Foxfire 0.6 NW            4.60

Orange County

Hillsborough 4.0 SSW       7.48        
Efland 4.0 NNW      9.10        
Hillsborough 7.4 NW     10.43       
Chapel Hill 4.5 WSW     10.22       
Hillsborough 1.8 S      8.41        
Chapel Hill 4.3 WSW     8.70   
Hillsborough 1.5 NE      8.36        
Hillsborough 5.6 NNW    9.96        
Chapel Hill 9.4 W       7.69   
Chapel Hill 4.7 SW       9.57        
Chapel Hill 2.2 N       9.20        
Hillsborough 2.8 SSW    7.27        
Chapel Hill 7.2 W       6.47        
Chapel Hill 7.2 WSW     7.76        
Chapel Hill 4.0 WNW     7.73        
Durham 7.8 NW               6.64        
Chapel Hill 6.5 WSW     9.04        
Hillsborough 8.4 NNE    10.49       
Carrboro 0.6 NNE    8.32        
Chapel Hill 11.4 W      7.53        
Carrboro 0.7 NNE    9.82        
Rougemont 4.7 SW    7.54      
Durham 6.7 WNW        9.80  

Person County

Hurdle Mills 5.2 NNW    9.15

Scotland County

Camp Mackall 2 W         5.91


Wake County

Raleigh 1.5 SW           0.47 
Apex   3.4 ESE             1.54
Apex    6.1 ESE          1.51
Cary 1.1 W              1.98  
Knightdale 4.7 SSE     0.49 
Wake Forest 1.9 NNE    0.53 
Holly Springs 2.7 ENE      1.43
Cary 1.7 NNE           1.11 
Fuquay-Varina 3.2 E     1.33