Talk:Flood warning

Merge tags

I added merge proposals to merge this into one of two articles, flood alert or flash flood warning. Not sure which - I suspect flood warning terminology differs by country and these are different terms used in different countries. It might be useful to merge all the different flood warning articles into a single article. Right now this topic is a hard to navigate mess with three different articles on essentially the same thing. Any ideas? KleenupKrew (talk) 19:07, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I added the two stray articles flood alert and flash flood warning to Category:Flood and this should make it easier to consider the full context. It seems to me that these two articles (while also being USA-centric, which could be corrected) start from, and concentrate mainly on, a meteorological basis. The first even attributes the task of flood alerts to "government weather agencies". It is important to cover both dissemination and reaction. Melcombe (talk) 09:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Oppose merge, as flash flooding is specificly the rapid rising of flood water. A flood warning is not issued if the water level rises rapidly, because a flash flood warning would be used. When flooding is expected to be slow, but still dangerous, or flooding has already occured, a flood warning is used. --Delta1989 (talk/contributions) 21:29, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose merge. They are separate products as issued by the National Weather Service...FFW and FAW are the SAME/VTEC codes...separate, notable products = separate articles. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 23:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Oppose merge. They are separate products. I propose that this proposal be closed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrycluker (talk • contribs) 04:43, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Merge templates had/have already been removed. Melcombe (talk) 14:12, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

There are more countries than just the Philippines, United Kingdom, and the United States that issues flood warnings.

There are more than just three countries that issue flood warnings. For instance, most (if not all) of the Meteoalarm countries issue color coded flood warnings. Also, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology also issues flood watches and warnings. 2601:5C5:4201:68B0:C18E:5779:B9BD:2002 (talk) 19:18, 13 February 2024 (UTC)