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A flash flood is a sudden flood event caused by a hydrologic response of the drainage basin. Flash floods are normally strongly localized and associated with extreme showers or thunderstorm activity, when high rates of precipitation occur in a short period of time.
On July 4, 2001 a flash flood swept through the Bryn Gwyn holiday park near Bala, North Wales leaving up to 45,000 homes without power and moving caravans several hundred yards away
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66 percent of flood deaths occur in vehicles, and most happen when drivers make a single, fatal mistake trying to navigate through flood waters.
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Just 6 inches of rapidly moving flood water can knock a person down.
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A mere 2 feet of water can float a large vehicle even a bus.
- Flood warnings are updated by Gov agencys. We endeavour to keep the flood warnings updated but you may need to refresh the page occasionally in case your computer has the flood warnings stored in its cache.
- Any doubt about these flood warnings and you should visit the relevant gov site to confirm latest flood warnings are being shown.
- We have flood warnings on this site so as much information can be gained from one source as possible rather than users searching for different information in different places.
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