Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest

🗞️ Story file #1262

Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest

Nov 2, 12 PM ET to Nov 2, 5 PM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast
2 of 2parts of a saga

📰 read it at: AP Los Angeles Times NBC News PBS NewsHour Scripps News The Epoch Times IJR New York Post Newsmax

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Nov 2, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: Independent Journal Review
Nov 2, 12 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Nov 2, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 2, 12 PM to Nov 2, 5 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

AP🕒 Nov 2, 2 AM ET Flash flooding prompts mandatory evacuations in southwest
Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 1, 4 PM ET Flash floods trigger evacuations in Arizona and Colorado amid heavy rains in Southwest
NBC News🕒 Nov 1, 7 PM ET Heavy rain expected to bring flooding risk to already saturated parts of Southwest
PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 2, 5 PM ET Flash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and a dire warning for a Colorado spa town
Scripps News🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET Mandatory evacuations and closures continue amid flooding in southwest Colorado
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 1, 9 PM ET Flash Floods Trigger Evacuations in Arizona and Colorado Amid Heavy Rains in Southwest
IJR🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET Southwest Flooding Prompts Evacuations in Three States
New York Post🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET Swept away Flash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and dire warning for tiny Colorado town
Newsmax🕒 Nov 1, 7 PM ET Flash Floods Trigger Evacuations Across Southwest

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

🫏 ABC News Update 1× · best #2

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

SouthwestArizonaColoradoColorado TownColorado Residents

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest

Four Corners region experiences ongoing flooding after heavy rain and storms
Oct 24, 6 PM ET
Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest (this story)
Nov 2, 12 PM ET

Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest

📰 Spread

📡 Broadcast

📺 On TV

📻 On the radio

🧶 Retelling

🔎 Checking

🧵 Persistence

🧵 Flash floods trigger evacuations in Southwest