Brunswick County Sheriff's OfficeThe Carolina Beach Elementary School was closed and students were dismissed early after classrooms started to flood, Oakley confirmed.
Sunny Point, North Carolina, picked up more than a month’s worth of rain when over 9 inches fell in just three hours.
CNN WeatherAreas near the North Carolina-South Carolina border – including Wilmington, North Carolina – are under a level 3 of 4 risk of flooding rainfall Monday, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
A much larger level 2 of 4 risk area encapsulates most of North Carolina and northern South Carolina.
In addition to heavy rain, this system could also produce a few tornadoes in eastern North Carolina Monday.
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