Overall Orange alert Flood
in Spain

Event summary

Flood can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1102983
Glide number: FL-2024-000199-ESP
Death: 285
Displaced: 587
Countries: Spain
From - To 27 Oct - 04 Nov

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Meteo assessment
Southern Spain, Late October 2024Heavy rainfall from 28 October 2024 caused severe flooding in areas of southern Spain, in particular in the Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha regions.Wed 30 Oct 2024FloodList provided by Copernicus GloFAS
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"[EMSR773] Flood in Valencia Region, Spain"

Latest media headlines

Spain hit with more devastating flash floods as cars swept away 11/8/2024 9:54:00 AM.

A flash flood has swept away cars in Spanish artist Salvador Dali’s former home area in a repeat of the agonising scenes witnessed 10 days ago in Valencia. A raging torrent of water carried off everything in its path including more than 30
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Valencia flood victims remembered in London 11/8/2024 9:52:00 AM.

SUR in English takes southern Spain out on to the streets of London. It has been an annual event for years. One chilly morning in early November commuters in London open their morning business paper on the train to find the warm sunshine of
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Spain hit by new catastrophic flooding as cars swept away in Girona fi.. 11/8/2024 9:39:00 AM.

A flash flood swept away cars in in northwest Spain on Friday, only a week after Spain’s worst rainfall in living memory. Dramatic footage showed torrential rains turning streets into rivers and sweeping cars away. The storm hit Cadaqués, w
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Spain hit by new flash floods: Freak torrential deluge sends cars floa.. 11/8/2024 9:39:00 AM.

Miraculously, there were no reports of human casualties in the former fishing village of Cadaqués on Friday. Catalan meteorological agency Meteocat, which published images of the latest flash flood to hit Spain early this morning, said: “Th
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),