Flood Early Warning
Flood Early Warning
The USGS Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center is developing flood early warning systems, with elevated streamgages, redundant monitoring and reporting equipment, and multiple communication systems. This network will give first responders, data managers, and citizens reliable and timely data during rapidly changing flood events.
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Texas Water Data for Emergency Management
Emergency managers often have urgent needs for situational awareness, impact assessment, and management of recovery or mitigation activities. Collecting and delivering information where and when it is needed requires advanced planning. The USGS Texas Water Science Center (TXWSC) can monitor water conditions anywhere but we must have the equipment in place before the event. The TXWSC can provide...
Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM)
In 2014, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began sponsorship of the InFRM team initiative to allow Federal teams across the States of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas to better align and integrate. Currently, the InFRM team is comprised of FEMA, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Geological Survey, and the National Weather Service. Information about the Interagency...
Texas Water Dashboard
The Texas Water Dashboard is a web mapping application that presents U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) real-time stream, lake, reservoir, precipitation, and well data in Texas in context with current weather and hazard conditions. Real-time measurements from over 750 USGS observation stations in Texas are accessible from the map viewer, along with complementary map layers such as current precipitation...
InFRM Flood Inundation Mapping
The purpose of this flood inundation mapping effort will be to meet the needs of real-time emergency managers by bridging the gap between the NWS's river forecasts and FEMA's available hydraulic modeling and mapping.
Bandera Flood Early Warning Tool
Risk of future flooding events in the Bandera County area highlights a critical need for a flood warning system. As part of the flood warning system, a tool set is needed to enhance the communication of flood risk and provide emergency managers additional information necessary to better mitigate the impacts of flooding. The USGS Texas Water Science Center is helping build this tool set through...