Flash floods are, statistically speaking, one of the deadliest weather hazards on the planet. They cause more fatalities in the United States in an average year than lightning, tornadoes, or ...

Flash flood emergency warnings are dire alerts issued by the National Weather Service in high-impact situations that warn potentially destructive and life-threatening flooding is imminent or ongoing.

This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens intended to warn its roughly 2,000 residents of imminent flooding. Founded by German abolitionists in ...