This study is the first of its kind to assemble, reprocess, describe, and disseminate a georeferenced U.S. database providing a long-term, detailed characterization of flash flooding in terms of spatiotemporal behavior and specificity of impacts.

Gourley, J., Y. Hong, Z. Flamig, A. Arthur, R. Clark, M. Calianno, I. Ruin, T. Ortel, M. Wieczorek, P.-E. Kirstetter, E. Clark, and W. Krajewski, “A Unified Flash Flood Database across the United States,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94, pp. 799–805, 2013.