WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 11, 2015
Post Event Analysis of the Flash Flood in Small Basin
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: Flash floods are one of the major natural hazards occurring on small streams with negative effect on the country as well as on human lives. Flash floods are mostly local events scattered in time and space. Nevertheless, this type of flood, often affecting ungaged watersheds, remains a poorly documented phenomenon. This paper presents a reconstruction of the catastrophic floods occurred in July 2014 which occurred on the Varinka stream in the Vratna Valley and in Terchova village located at the Mala Fatra National Park, Slovakia. The methodology is based on description of past events from 1941 to 2014. These measurements were focused on documenting of the flood development and on measuring of the flood culmination. Subsequently, the measured results were preliminary evaluated. At the end of this paper, there are described some extreme flash floods which occurred on the Slovak territory. The flash flood on July 2014 on the Varinka stream is there compared with the most extreme flash flood occurred on the Mala Svinka stream in July 1998.
Search Articles
Pages: 193-200
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 11, 2015, Art. #21