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Assignment 2

A Featured Article (FA) receives this status when an article meets the "featured article" criteria and goes through peer review. This article usually doesn't require further editing.

An A-class (A) article meets almost all requirements to be a featured article but lacks some more information. These articles are very useful to the readers.

A Good Article (GA) goes through a nomination process to be granted good article status. Articles at this status could still use some work to reach higher status.

A B-class article (B) has a majority of the material needed for a complete article, but they contain a lot of missing information. These articles are useful to many reader, but not all.

A Start-class article (Start) has a good amount of information, but is still lacking in many areas. These articles provide a moderate amount of information to the reader.

A Stub-class article (Stub) is usually a short summary of information that needs a lot of work to reach A-class status.

Proposal

For my wikiproject I would like to improve the Flash Flood Warning stub. There is already a little on flash floods, but it doesn't have a lot information. I'm interested in this topic because this is an event that happens every year in Utah and it is good to know about flash floods and flash flood warnings if you do a lot of outdoor recreation. I've found a couple of sites that already have information on this topic that can help me when I get started on this project.

Here is the link the the current flash flood warning page: Flash Flood Warning

Here are a few sites that I have found:

American Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0_240_,00.html

NOAA - http://www.noaa.gov/floods.html

Naval Safety Center - http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/safetips/flashflood.htm

Stormwarn - http://www.stormwarn.com/rants/flash_flood_warnings.html

Rough draft





A flash flood is a sudden, violent flood after a heavy rain. Rainfall intensity and duration, topography, soil conditions, and ground cover contribute to flash flooding. Most flash floods occur when there is a heavy amount of precipitation falling in an area and that water is then channeled through streams or narrow gullies. Flash floods may take minutes or hours to develop. It is possible to experience a flash flood without witnessing any rain. In this case, there would be heavy rain in areas upstream of your location.

There are two types of alerts for flash floods which are released by the National Weather Service. One is a flash flood watch, which means a flash flood could occur in the area. And the other is a flash flood warning, which means a flash flood is occurring or one will occur. A flash flood warning is issued when there are strong doppler radar returns for an area that is prone to flash flooding. If a flash flood warning is issued, evacuate quickly and move to higher ground. Do not try to drive through the flooded areas! If your vehicle does stall, get out immediately and move to higher ground!

Some things to be aware of when in a flash flood prone area:
 * be aware of any signs of heavy rain
 * if you see or hear rapid rising water get to high ground
 * do not attempt to cross the flowing water

Flash floods can also occur because of a dam or levee failure, or because of a sudden release of water held by an ice jam.