Flash floods can happen at any time, making them unpredictable and hard to prepare for. Even the name “flash flood” implies that they can appear out of nowhere and cause all kinds of damage.

As many Southern Californians were braving the storms Tuesday to cast their ballots, smartphones buzzed with an emergency alert from the National Weather Service: a flash flood warning for the ...

Emergency officials are starting to focus on alert systems as they search for answers about how the flash flooding swept away ...

Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash ...