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What (who) is flash flood - definition
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![A flash flood after a thunderstorm in the [[Gobi]], Mongolia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GobiFlood.JPG?width=200 "A flash flood after a thunderstorm in the [[Gobi]], Mongolia")
![Flash flooded road in [[Northern Mexico]], after a 3–5 hour long thunderstorm that occurred during a drought that lasted nearly 1 year](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minor Flood.jpg?width=200 "Flash flooded road in [[Northern Mexico]], after a 3–5 hour long thunderstorm that occurred during a drought that lasted nearly 1 year")
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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.
