The National Weather Service (NWS) issued an urgent flash flood emergency warning that a North Carolina dam is at imminent risk of failure as Tropical Storm Helene dumped heavy rainfall on the region.
“Urgent: flash flood emergency for the Lake Lure Dam! Dam failure imminent! Rsidents [sic] below the dam need to evacuate to higher ground immediately,” NWS’s office in Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, wrote in an all-caps message on social media.
Lake Lure, located in Rutherford County, is one of many areas across western North Carolina that have received several inches of rain since Helene, which was downgraded from a Category 4 hurricane after hitting Florida on Thursday night, impacted the region….