flood peak in a sentence

Examples

1. Rockhampton had nearly a week to prepare for an expected flood peak from the Fitzroy River, which courses through the centre of the city.
2. These new channels must manage the same amount of precipitation causing flood peaks to be [ higher or deeper ] and floodwaters to travel faster.
3. A flood peak, the fourth this year, was forming on the upper reaches of the 6, 300-kilometer-( 3, 900-mile-) long river, the China Youth Daily said.
4. Flood peaks increase more rapidly with increases in rainfall intensity above a threshold value for the maximum 30 min intensity of approximately 10 mm per hour.
5. The whole of north Moree was told to evacuate the day before the flood peak including the nearby villages of Yarraman, Gwydirfield, Bendygleet, Pallamallawa and Biniguy.
6. The China Daily disclosed that levees had also been breached in at least three places in neighboring Hubei province as the Yangtze flood peak passed by.
7. A flood peak, the fourth this year, was forming on the upper reaches of the 6, 300-kilometer-( 3, 900-mile-) long Yangtze, the China Youth Daily said.
8. At Koulikoro, downstream from Bamako, the flood peaks in September, while in Timbuktu the flood lasts longer and usually reaches a maximum at the end of December.
9. The newspaper did not say whether the breaches caused any casualties or damage but said they did take some of the force out of the flood peak.
10. A flood peak rolled through this port city along the swollen Yangtze River early Tuesday, threatening to burst dikes sodden by more than a month of flooding.