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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 2743–2752, 2012 Natural Hazards /12/2743/2012/ doi:10.5194/nhess-12-2743-2012 and Earth © Author(s) 2012. CC Attribution 3.0 License. System Sciences A hydrological analysis of the 4 November 2011 event in Genoa 1 1 2 1 1 1 1,3 F. Silvestro , S. Gabellani , F. Giannoni , A. Parodi , N. Rebora , R. Rudari , and F. Siccardi 1CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy 2ARPAL Regional Environment Protection Agency, Genova, Italy 3University of Genova, Genova, Italy Correspondence to: F. Silvestro (francesco.silvestro@) Received: 18 April 2012 – Revised: 29 June 2012 – Accepted: 11 July 2012 – Published: 3 September 2012 Abstract. On the 4 November 2011 a flash flood event hit the intense and localized finger-shape mesoscale convective sys- area of Genoa with dramatic consequences. Such an event tem (MCS) – like precipitation structure – embedded within represents, from the meteorological and hydrological per- a general stormy synoptic weather scenario developed by a spective, a paradigm of flash floods in the Mediterranean en- large Mediterranean perturbation. These convective fingers vironment. remained stationary for a significant number of hours on the The hydro-meteorological probabilistic forecasting sys- same area (of few square kilometres) pouring very high quan- tem for small and medium size catchments in use at the Civil tities of rainfall. Protection Centre of Liguria region exhibited excellent per-