National Weather Service Reworks Flooding Terms |
By Assistant Chief Keith Grierson | |
November 7, 2021 | |
As of last week the National Weather Service (NWS) will implement a reformat and consolidation of our flood products. Specifically, · NWS Flash Flood Watches and Flood Watches will be consolidated into one Flood Watch product for expected heavy rainfall events. Examples of this change are included in the attached document. · In the rare event that a dam (or levee) failure or significant ice jam flooding may occur, we will continue to issue the Flash Flood Watch product. · Previous Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisories and Small Stream Flood Advisories will now be called just Flood Advisories. Again refer to the attached document for examples. · Flood products will all now use the bulleted WHAT... WHERE... WHEN... IMPACTS... format, similar to how other NWS warnings look. |
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