Flooding Risks from Tropical Moisture Across the Southeast and Southwest

Tropical moisture from Isaias and Rachel will impact portions of the Southeast and Southwest this weekend. Flash flooding, strong winds and even a threat for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible. Meanwhile, strong winds and dry fuels are raising fire weather concerns across the central Great Basin and western High Plains. Across the northern Rockies, first winter storm of the season. Read More >

The new NWS Hydrologic website, the National Water Prediction Service (NWPS), https://water.noaa.gov/ was released March 27, 2024.

Note, click the Rivers and Lakes tab on weather.gov/mkx to get to the new site, titled National Water Prediction Service (NWPS).

Some features of the new website:

Mobile-compatible
Dynamically-plotting hydrographs
Improved web map functionality and improved base maps and hydro-specific spatial layers
Application Programming Interface (API) - partners can leverage directly into their own applications

A summary of these features, along with video demonstrations is on this Story Map.

New URLs:

The links to river gauge pages will go from:

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mkx&gage=XXXW3 to https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/XXXW3

The direct links to static hydrographs will go from:

https://water.weather.gov/resources/hydrographs/XXXW3_hg.png to https://water.noaa.gov/resources/hydrographs/XXXW3_hg.png

You can provide feedback on the upgraded site here.

Questions? Can't find what your looking for? Contact Sarah Marquardt, Senior Service Hydrologist at sarah.marquardt@noaa.gov

Additional Resources

MKX RSS Feed

Flooding Risks from Tropical Moisture Across the Southeast and Southwest

New River Observation and Forecast Website