Cloudburst [noun]

Once black clouds gathered in the distance, to pour out a cloudburst.

A deep sheet of water swept down from the prairie beyond the town limits to the west, where the rainfall was a cloudburst.

Before it lay a long descent, a cloudburst, the sunset of a civilization, another night.

Just a yielding here, a parting there, until the cloudburst precipitated the disaster.

The first awful effects of the cloudburst were passing, and the water was going down slowly but surely.

A lot of cheap photographers and street-car conductors were caught in a cloudburst of money and thought they made it.

Along towards evening a dreadful tempest burst up in the hillsa regular cloudburst.

A hundred years they had stood there, defying storm and cloudburst, but at last the drought was sucking away their life.

"Cloudburst" is merely a picturesque name for a very heavy shower; usually a thunder-shower.

He had hardly time to get out the words before the spouted water came down with the force of a cloudburst upon the boat.