Contents

• AHPS Fact Sheet
• Audio-Visual/CDs
• Brochures
• Magazine Articles and Publications

AHPS Fact Sheet

• Water Information for a Stronger and Safer America (Jan 2003)

Audio-Visual/CDs:

To View the DVDs below, you need a DVD player installed on your computer.

• Cyclone: Second Wave
  • Tropical Cyclone Flooding, txt of script (6 minutes)
    To view, you need Power DVD viewer
  • Tropical Cyclone Inland Flooding (2 minutes)
  • NWS Flood Severity Scale (2 minutes)
  • Turn Around Don't Drown (2 Minutes)
• Water Predictions for Life Decisions (AHPS): VHS and CD: 4 minute & 20 minute versions, Copies available from Larry.Wenzel@noaa.gov

To view the videos below, you need a free, Quicktime Viewer.

• Safety/Education Videos
  • Low Water Crossings: The Hidden Danger: 30 second, 8 minute Streaming Videos
  • Moving Water: Adventure or Danger (16 minutes: mov)
  • Water's Fury
  • Water Work: Careers in Hydrology (15 minutes: mov)
• Public Service Announcements (PSAs) .mov files
  • Hazardous Arroyous
  • Know your Caves
  • Moving Water: Adventure or Danger
  • Power of Moving Water
  • Storm Drains-
  • Water Safety in Canyons
  • White Water Rafting Safety
  • Knowing NOAA:  An inside look at the National Weather Service. Gary Carter, Office of Hydrologic Development
• Flood Smart: The National Flood Insurance Program
  • Flood Smart 5 minute video and 30 sec PSA (requires DVD capability): 500 mg

Brochures, Flyers

The following are Hydrologic materials with their NOAA PA number. To get a single free copy, email NOAA OPCA/Outreach Unit and include the PA number. For bulk copies contact NLSC

• 200753:  Flood Preparation and Flood Safety (Flood Insurance)
• 200258: AHPS: Water Prediction for Life Decisions
• 200467: Flood...The Awesome Power/NSC version
• National Safety Council: AHPS: Water Prediction for Life Decisions
• 77014: Flash Flood (Wallet Card)
• 200253: Floods . . . The Awesome Power!, pdf
• 20052: Hurricane Flooding: A Deadly Inland Danger
• 92059: Red Cross: Are you ready for a flood or flash flood? htm or pdf
• 92060: Red Cross: Are You Ready for a Flood or a Flash Flood? (Spanish)
• 92062: Red Cross Poster: Are You Ready for a Flood or a Flash Flood? (E/S)
• 94059: River and Flood Program (Hydrologic Services Program)
• 96074E: The Hidden Danger: Low Water Crossing (English) pdf
• 96074S: The Hidden Danger: Low Water Crossing (Spanish) pdf
• 200465: Tropical Cyclone Flooding: A Deadly Inland Danger
• 200552: TADD Brochure NWS/National Safety Council version: PDF. Available from NLSC

Educational Links

• Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment
• Flood Awareness PSA
• USA Today Weather Chat
• Urban Flooding:  It Can Happen in a Flash
• The Water Cycle: U.S. Geologic Service

Magazine Articles and Publications

• NCAR/UCAR:  Flash Floods and River Floods
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), March 2005
• A Core Suite of AHPS Graphical Hydrologic Products and Information, March 2003
• Toward Improving the Hydrologic Service Program Today and in the Future:
  July 7, 2003
• Flood Forecast Mapping, Tar River Basin, NC
• American White Water: Water Predictions for Life Decisions; PDF (Sept/Oct 2001)
• 9-1-1 Magazine: Water Prediction for Life Decisions: PDF (Nov/Dec 2002)
• Utility Safety: 21st Century Ushers in New Hydrologic Services
• NOAA Magazine
• National Safety Council: Floodfighting Prediction Service Helps Responders Prepare