River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate life-saving information.

Despite the rising threat of climate disasters like last week’s deadly flash flood in Texas, the vast majority of America’s waterways are still not being monitored by water level gauges that help ...

How do you measure flood levels? With a stream gauge. ... These were established by the U.S. Geological Survey in locations that are close to population centers or contain features of interest, ...

It took just 90 minutes for the river to rise more than 30 feet. A look at the historic flood levels now etched into Central ...

In the early days of July, pieces of weather systems were converging to create a disaster over Texas Hill Country that would ...

New Flood Gauges For New York Rivers ... USGS Hydrologist Gary Firda explains how the gauges operate: "They record the stage or elevation of the river, that's how high or low the river is.

The U.S. Geological Survey installed eight rapid deployment gauges Monday, Aug. 5, and Tuesday, Aug. 6, to augment its network of near real-time streamgages and track rising waters and flow ...

USGS deployed 1 rapid gauge and 8 sensors along the west coast of Florida prior to Hurricane Milton. ... the data will help flood insurance companies and building codes to improve structural designs.