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Flood Warnings

Created 07/10/2024

Updated 07/10/2024

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Flood Warnings are issued by the Bureau to advise that flooding is occurring or expected to occur in a geographical area based on defined criteria. Flood Warning severity is displayed for each sub-catchment, identified by the highest/worst classification of forecast severity (i.e. minor, moderate or major) at a forecast site within a sub-catchment. Generalised Flood Warnings may also be issued when there is no defined flood warning service, low amounts of data available or in the developing stages of a flood event. Final severity is displayed for the final issue of a Flood Warning. Flood Warning areas are areas that are at risk of the impacts of flooding (eg inundation of low lying areas). Flood Warning areas do not represent the current or forecast flood extent. Flood Warning areas are not defined for all parts of Australia. The flood forecasting and warning service uses rainfall and streamflow observations, numerical weather predictions and hydrologic models to forecast and warn for possible flood events. Flood warnings, which are issued by each Australian State/Territory have been combined into a national product for Web Map Service and Web Feature Service layers.

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Title Flood Warnings
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/e51cd505-432a-4342-ad6e-1543a8c6e85f
Contact Point
Bureau of Meteorology
mgdu@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 02/05/2024
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.158, -44.60228], [154.63218, -44.60228], [154.63218, -9.088], [112.158, -9.088], [112.158, -44.60228]]]}
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