Creating a Non-River Flood Watch: Completion Time ~ 10 min

Purpose:

In this jobsheet you will issue a non-river flood watch using the select by area capability for a loaded map. This jobsheet should be done with CAVE in practice mode after the local focal has configured Hazard Services.

Tasks:

NOTES:

  • Note that you can use any of the drawing tools to create these watches, but the method discussed here is most analogous to the the GHG work flow.
  • Note that when Hazard Services transmits a non-river flood watch, it writes out the Fcst and Official grids to the GFE Hazard grids.
  1. This jobsheet will use the D2D Perspective with the Hydrology All Setting.
  2. From the Maps menu, load the "Forecast Zones".
  3. Click on the MAPS icon on the Hazard Services console to select the "Forecast Zones XXX" map.
  4. The map boundaries will turn green and the mouse pointer will become a “+”. Left-click specific zones that you want to include in the watch, or left-click and drag over the zones to paint the selected zones in the map.
  5. When done, right-click to trigger the painted area to be converted to a polygon. The HID will open with only the “Hydrology” category selected.
  6. Set the "Type" to be FF.A, and then click Preview. In later builds the FF.A (FLASH FLOOD WATCH) will change to Flash Flood Watch (FF.A).
  7. The Product Editor will open. Enter the necessary details of the Basis Bullet and Impacts Bullet for each zone, and then click "Issue All".
  8. When the “Live Active Product” dialog comes up, click the "Issue" button.