100-year 24-Hour Rainfall Event

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-000004",
  "term": "100-year 24-Hour Rainfall Event",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Precipitation event with a probable recurrence interval of once in ten years, or twenty five years, or one hundred years, respectively, as defined by the National Weather Service in Technical Paper No. 40, “Rainfall Frequency Atlas of the United States,” May, 1961, or equivalent regional or State rainfall probability information developed from this source.",
  "subject": "Natural environments",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 412.2 (CFR 2017)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/100-year-24-hour-rainfall-event/"
}