Learn how to receive emergency alerts during flash floods in Southern Nevada, from wireless notifications to weather radios, as monsoon season brings increased flooding risks.

The summer rainy season in New Mexico usually brings daily alerts about the potential for flooding around the arid state

In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising waters that ultimately proved deadly to dozens of people swept away in central Texas flash floods.