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flash flood

rapid flooding of low-lying areas, often caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or melt water from ice or snow
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flash flood

Summary

flash flood ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flash flood's image is recorded as GobiFlood.JPG[2].
  • flash flood's subclass of is recorded as flood[3].
  • flash flood's Commons category is recorded as Flash floods[4].
  • flash flood's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01kdnv[5].
  • flash flood's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph669434[6].
  • flash flood's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flash floods[7].
  • flash flood's page banner is recorded as Flash floods banner Flooding in Foshan.jpg[8].
  • flash flood's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 7444[9].
  • flash flood's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0172892[10].
  • flash flood's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/flash-flood[11].
  • flash flood's different from is recorded as Cil[12].
  • flash flood's Quora topic ID is recorded as Flash-Flood[13].
  • flash flood's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as flash-floods[14].
  • flash flood's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 01000709[15].
  • flash flood's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 120417685[16].
  • flash flood's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07422193-n[17].
  • flash flood's CNA topic ID is recorded as flash-floods[18].
  • flash flood's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C120417685[19].
  • flash flood's GEMET ID is recorded as 15170[20].

Why It Matters

flash flood ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . diariodecadiz.es. diariodecadiz.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Nat (WDU) · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → flood
    Topic's main category → Category:Flash floods
    Aliases → —
    Different from → Cil
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29431|batch #29431]]: UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID for extreme weather events"
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