Over 4,000 flash flood warnings are issued across the United States every year, but only a fraction are declared emergencies.

Just a small percentage of flood alerts issued by the National Weather Service each year are the highest level called a flash ...

Do you know what to do when flooding threatens your life and/or property? The third day of Minnesota's Severe Weather ...

Like tornadoes, the National Weather Service has a warning system in place for floods and flash floods. And also like tornadoes, the system for flooding uses the same terminology, and can be just ...

One person was killed and 10 others were injured, one critically, as tornadoes and severe weather struck the Midwest and ...

Nashville’s Metro Emergency Alert & Notification System (MEANS) forwarded 111 weather warnings from the National Weather ...

An additional 3 to 4 inches of rain could fall in Lexington by Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Flash flood emergency warnings are rare: Given the large number of flash flood warnings issued, just over 20 years ago the NWS begun issuing a more extreme alert, called a flash flood emergency ...