“If you’ve never seen water rise in front of you in minutes, it’s hard to conceive of how quickly that can happen—and how quickly your life and property can be at risk,” said Rachel Hogan Carr, executive director of the Nurture Nature Center, a nonprofit focused on flood-risk communication.

Year of the Flood” in the US, with a record 3,358 flash flood warnings issued by National Weather Service and deadly rainfall killing 145 in Texas. Slow-moving storms, climate change, and saturated air have triggered widespread,

One of the worst floods in a Texas rivers' history left dozens dead over the Independence Day weekend. What to know about flash flooding and warnings.

The region of Texas that suffered tremendous loss last week because of heavy rain and flooding is once again in danger of taking in more water. On Sunday morning, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the epicenter of the catastrophic Independence Day flooding event.

An updated flash flood warning was issued by the NWS Fort Worth TX on Monday at 5:25 a.m. in effect until 8:30 a.m. The warning is for Johnson, Bosque, Hamilton, Hill and Somervell counties.

Texas was hammered with heavy rain again Sunday, just nine days after catastrophic flash floods left more than 120 people dead in one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s

Another round of heavy rains is drenching central Texas with “life-threatening flash flooding,” according to the National Weather Service, forcing first responders in Kerrville to suspend search-and-rescue operations looking for the remaining missing after the deadly floods that took place last week.

With an outpouring of volunteers from across the state, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery.

A flash flood warning was issued by the NWS Fort Worth TX on Monday at 2:30 a.m. in effect until 5:30 a.m. The warning is for Johnson, Bosque and Hill counties.

Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic consequences. In Texas and elsewhere, the solution is more wide-ranging than fixing any single channel of communication.

Thousands of flash flood warnings have been issued across the country and the number of flash flood emergencies is near-record, too.