SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two sisters ages 7 and 3 have died in flash flooding that sent torrents of water roaring into a narrow canyon in the Utah desert.
Authorities said Tuesday that at least 21 others escaped the flooding in Little Wildhorse Canyon.
A flash flood watch remains in effect in portions Southern Nevada through Thursday evening, the National Weather Service said.
The watch impacts western Clark County, southern and central Nye County, Esmeralda County, and Lincoln County, beginning at 11 a.m. through the evening.
The storm system has prompted tornado and flash flood warnings, and officials are keeping a close watch on New Orleans' levee system and infrastructure, which failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Hundreds of residents in the coastal city of Townsville are heading home after days of devastating flooding submerged entire neighborhoods. Police have reported two fatalities.
Less than two years after what had been called a "once in a 1,000 years" flood in 2016, Ellicott City, Md., sees its historic downtown ravaged anew. One man remains missing.
A storm dropped record rainfall on the island this past weekend. Residents are assessing the damage — and bracing for even more rain. There's a flash flood watch in place for all of Hawaii.
Greece is in mourning after torrential downpours caused floods causing deaths, injury and destruction of hundreds of homes and businesses outside Athens.
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch across Clark County and southern Nevada for the weekend as thunderstorms are expected to hit across the valley.
The service put the warning in effect from 9 a.m. Friday morning and have it in effect through late Friday night.
The victims were all from one Phoenix family, who had been celebrating a birthday alongside a popular swimming hole, unaware that summer thunderstorms had just dropped heavy rains upstream.
A flash flood plowed through a popular rural Arizona swimming hole Saturday afternoon, killing at least nine people, local authorities say. One person is missing.
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The search for the body of 6-year-old Tyson Lucas Black who was swept away by floods in a small polygamous community on the border of Utah and Arizona is expected to be scaled-back beginning Friday.
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The mayor of a small polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border says searchers are hoping to find a 6-year-old boy after flash flooding killed 12 others, including the child's mother, aunts, siblings and cousins.
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Officials at Zion National Park in southern Utah say a fourth person has been found dead and three people are still missing after heavy rains sent flash floods coursing through a narrow slot canyon.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Flash flooding again closed roads and highways along the Sierra's eastern front on Thursday as thunderstorms dumped heavy rain from north of Reno to south of Carson City for the third day in a row.
Much of Nevada is under a flash flood watch as unseasonably cool weather pushes rain across the region on the heels of one of the state's hottest Julys...
Imagine climbing through Zion National Park, only to see a flash flood rush toward you. That's what happened to David Frankhouser, Joe Cain and Jason Fico.
