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Definition: Flash Flood |
Flash FloodNoun1. A sudden local flood of great volume and short duration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geography | A flood of short duration and abrupt rise with a relatively high peak rate of flow, usually resulting from a high intensity of rainfall over a small area ; A sudden, brief flood of great volume, most often due to very heavy rains in a given area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | A flood which follows within a few hours (usually less than 6 hours) of heavy or excessive rainfall, dam or levee failure, or the sudden release of water impounded by an ice jam. (references) |
Mining | A local and sudden flood or torrent of relatively great volume and short duration, overflowing a stream channel in a usually dry valley (as in a semiarid area), carrying an immense load of mud and rock fragments, and generally resulting from a rare and brief but heavy rainfall over a relatively small area having steep slopes. It may also be caused by icejams and by dam failure. See also:freshet. (references) |
Public Administration | A sudden flood with a high peak discharge. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flash flooding is rapid flooding of low-lying areas, rivers and creekss that is caused by the intense rainfall associated with a thunderstorm. Flash flooding occurs when the ground under a storm becomes saturated with water so quickly that it cannot be absorbed. The runoff collects in low lying areas and flows rapidly downhill. As a result, anything in its path is suddenly in rising water. These most often occur in dry areas that have recently received precipitation, but the flash flood can flow for a long distance as long as there is a path downhill.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flash flood."
Crosswords: Flash Flood |
| Specialty definitions using "flash flood": Area Wide Hydrologic Prediction System ♦ Critical Rainfall Probability ♦ Flash Flood Guidance, Flash Flood Statement, Flash Flood Table, Flash Flood Warning, Flash Flood Watch ♦ Short-Fuse Warning ♦ Urban Flash Flood Guidance. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Flash flood within a city in Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flash flood | 31 |
flash flood picture | 7 |
flash flood information | 5 |
flash flood safety | 2 |
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5 flash flood movie | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "flash flood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vërshim i menjëhershëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | طوفان مفاجئ, طوفان محلي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | порой (brash, debacle, downpour, flood, freshet, pour, spate, torrent, volley). (various references) | |
Chinese | 暴洪 (a sudden, violent flood). (various references) | |
Czech | záplava (barrage, flood, gush, gust, overflow, spate, stream). (various references) | |
Danish | pludselig stærk oversvømmelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | stortvloed, plotselinge overstroming. (various references) | |
Finnish | hyökytulva, äkkitulva. (various references) | |
French | onde de submersion (flashflood), crue subite, crue soudaine (flashflood), crue brutale (flashflood), crue éclair (flashflood). (various references) | |
German | Flutwelle (eagre, tidal wave), Sturzflut (torrent), Hochwasser (flood, high tide, high water). (various references) | |
Greek | στιγμιαία πλημμύρα, ξαφνικός χείμαρρος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | áradás (flush, high water, spate, sweep). (various references) | |
Italian | piena istantanea (flashflood), piena improvvisa (flashflood), piena brusca (flashflood), piena (flood), onda di piena, esondazione lampo, esondazione istantanea. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉄砲水 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てっぽうみず. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashflay oodflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inundação repentina, enxurrada, cheia repentina. (various references) | |
Russian | внезапное наводнение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bujica (freshet, spate, stream, torrent, volley). (various references) | |
Spanish | riada (onrush, stream), inundación repentina, golpe de agua, avenida repentina. (various references) | |
Swedish | kortvarigt intensivt flöde. (various references) | |
Turkish | su baskını (deluge, flood, flooding, inundation, submersion), ani su taşması. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-h-l-l-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: offloads. | |
-3 letters: halloos, holloas, loofahs, offload, shadoof. | |
-4 letters: aholds, aldols, allods, floods, halloo, hallos, hollas, holloa, hollos, loofah, loofas, offals. | |
-5 letters: ahold, aldol, allod, aloof, daffs, dahls, dhals, doffs, dolls, fados, falls, flash, flood, foals, folds, foods, fools, hallo, halls, halos, holds, holla, hollo, hoods, hoofs, loads, loafs, loofa, loofs, offal, ollas, salol, shall. | |
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