Non-River Flood Watch (FF.A, FA.A) - Hazard Services
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.
- This jobsheet will use the D2D Perspective with the Hydrology All Setting.
- From the Maps menu, load the "Forecast Zones".

- Click on the MAPS icon on the Hazard Services console to select the "Forecast Zones XXX" map.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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).

- The Product Editor will open. Enter the necessary details of the Basis Bullet and Impacts Bullet for each zone, and then click "Issue All".

- When the “Live Active Product” dialog comes up, click the "Issue" button.

