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Weather Impact Alert: Strong winds, flash flooding, tornadoes threaten Quad Cities region Friday
Storms Friday could bring damaging winds, flash flooding, and a few isolated tornadoes. A Weather Impact Alert is in effect.
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Team Rubicon provides humanitarian aid in Bemidji storm recovery
Team Rubicon is a veteran-led nonprofit that is often one of the first outside responders to natural disasters, providing aid to those in need. This help stretched to Bemidji from July 2-15.
Chances of heavy rain will return to Texas just a week after deadly flooding
In areas that see rainfall and increased cloud cover, temperatures are expected to remain below seasonal averages into next ...
Texas Hill Country keeps close eye on next wave of storms headed to state after deadly flooding
The risk of heavy rainfall and severe weather is expected to return to the Lone Star State over the weekend, but the worst of ...
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Baltimore dodges worst of storms as tornado warnings, heavy rain hit surrounding counties
The weather calmed Wednesday night in the Baltimore region after alerts were issued for much of the state warning of severe ...
How the death toll from the July 4 floods compares to other disasters: Harvey, Texas freeze and more
According to local authorities, at least 109 people died on July 4 and 5, most of which were swept up in floodwaters from ...
Beyond the eye: How rain, not wind or surge, became the deadliest tropical hazard
We need to continue to improve the skill of hyper-localized flood forecasts because this is the main way people are dying ...
Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there’s no telling where they’ll happen
Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...
Chantal brought flooding rain, four confirmed tornadoes to North Carolina
AND THE STORMS DEFINITELY BRING FLOODING INLAND. AND THAT THREAT FOR TORNADOES. AND WE SAW BOTH OF THOSE AS CHANTAL MOVED ...
A look at some of the worst floods in US history, from Hurricane Katrina to dam disasters
The devastation in Texas Hill Country isn't the first time Americans have mourned the victims of deadly floodwaters.
A look at some of the deadliest floods in the US in the last 25 years
Flooding has caused an average of more than 125 deaths per year in the United States over the past few decades, according to the National Weather Service, and flash floods are the nation's top ...