Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 ...

Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash ...

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A perfect storm of a slow-moving pocket of moist air, parched terrain and a hilly area prone to flash flooding unleashed ...

Texas as a whole leads the nation in flood deaths, and by a wide margin. A colleague and I analyzed data from 1959 to 2019 and found 1,069 people had died in flooding in Texas over those six decades.

A hydrologist and civil engineer explain why portions of southern Texas — known as Flash Flood Alley — is so prone to such ...

The death toll from flooding in central Texas rose to at least 43 people, including 15 children, as rescuers search for 27 ...

The latest death count exceeded 100 people in an area where flooding happens frequently. Of that death toll, more than two ...

The death toll from the devastating flash floods that hit Texas over the weekend has risen to 104 as officials warn of more ...