The Flash Flood Warning System Reference Guide is intended to promote the implementation of flash flood early warning systems based upon proven and effective methods already in use in flash-flood prone nations around the world. Both governmental and non-governmental decision makers can use it to better understand flash floods and the elements that constitute a robust, end-to-end flash flood early warning system. The guide includes chapters on Flash Flood Science, Flash Flood Forecasting Methods, Monitoring Networks, Technology Infrastructure, Warning Dissemination and Notification, and Community-based Disaster Management, and offers several examples of warning systems.
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- State the characteristics of flash floods that make them difficult to predict and of such high threat.
- List the general characteristics and components of an effective flash flood early warning system.
- State the benefits of an early warning system.
- Describe the potential sources of flash floods and the hydrological and meteorological characteristics that lead to them.
- Describe the strengths and limitations of the variety of hydrometeorological sensors available.
- State the basic communication requirements of an early warning system.
- State the major components of the technology infrastructure necessary for an early warning system.
- Describe the variety of flash flood systems in use, including local flood warning systems, Flash Flood Guidance systems, the US NWS FFMP system.
- Explain how Flash Flash Potential Index and Global Flash Flood Guidance products are produced and used.
- Describe and distinguish between warning products, warning dissemination, and warning notification.
- List characteristics and components of an effective community-based disaster management program.
- List the questions and information that drive the development of a concept of operations for a flash flood early warning system.
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