Definitions for flash flood
flash flood

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1. flash flood, flashfloodnoun

   a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration

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1. flash floodnoun

   A sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact

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1. Flash flood

   A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or by meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may also occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from regular floods by having a timescale of fewer than six hours between rainfall and the onset of flooding.Flash floods are a significant hazard, causing more fatalities in the U.S. in an average year than lightning, tornadoes, or hurricanes. Flash floods can also deposit large quantities of sediments on floodplains and can be destructive of vegetation cover not adapted to frequent flood conditions.

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1. flash flood

   A flash flood is a rapid flooding event caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time, often in low-lying areas. This type of flood can occur within minutes or hours after the rainfall, leading to significant damage due to its sudden and intense nature. Flash floods can also be caused by the rapid melting of ice or snow, dam or levy breaks, or changes in terrain caused by earthquakes or other natural disasters.

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1. Flash flood

   A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale of less than six hours. The temporary availability of water is often utilized by foliage with rapid germination and short growth cycle, and by specially adapted animal life.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flash flood in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flash flood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of flash flood in a Sentence

1. National Weather Service:

   Another round of thunderstorms in a high monsoonal moisture environment is expected today, with a flash flood watch in effect for much of the region through Sunday morning.

2. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho:

   Forest destruction in the Cyclops mountains have increased for use as firewood and to turn the land into plantations, since 2018 we have warned the Jayapura government to be careful of flash flood risks because of this deforestation.

3. The WPC:

   It's never a good thing to get too much rain all at once, a trait all too common among slow-moving tropical storms, thus, the flash flood potential is summarily also rapidly increasing.

4. The National Weather Service:

   Extremely dangerous flash flooding is ongoing along the Tittabawassee River in Midland County due to catastrophic dam failures at the Edenville and Sanford dams, this flooding will continue all along the length of the river in Midland County, and possibly extending into Saginaw county where a Flash Flood Watch is also in effect.

5. Deden Ridwansyah:

   The weather was good and there was no flash flood, those children who drowned were holding each others’ hands. One of them slipped and the others followed.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=flash flood
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Flash_Flood
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Flood
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=flash flood