It’s almost time to welcome back the Flood Threat Bulletin (FTB) Program! Beginning this Sunday (May 1st), subscribers will start to receive the FTB to their inbox each morning (more info below to sign up). In addition to the FTB, the Flood Threat Outlook (FTO) will return on Monday and Thursday afternoons, which will look at the potential flood threat over the next 15-days across the state. Next, the Fire Burn Forecast (FBF) for the 2022 season will highlight the daily flood threat over 11 high-risk burn areas across Colorado’s mountain terrain. The FBF table will also track rainfall totals and flood reports generated by the public. Reminder, you can report any flooding that you encounter using the “Report a Flood” tab at the top of this page or by CLICKING HERE. We’re very appreciative of any first-hand reports! We use these reports in our daily State Precipitation Map (SPM) where we track flooding events and rainfall that has occurred across the state. Reports generated by the “Report a Flood” tab will also be featured in our daily SPM posts. Finally, the SPM will be published slightly later this year (no later than 12PM), but this will allow us to include delayed reports of heavy rainfall, flooding, debris slides and mud flows.
New this year:
- Daily Fire Burn Forecast to now include 11 burn areas. The FBF will track flood reports and provide daily forecasts for 5 additional burn areas this season, which in addition to last year’s 6 locations, means 11 total burns area for this product. The burn areas included in the 2022 season are Calwood, Cameron Peak, Decker, East Troublesome, Grizzly Creek, Middle Fork, Morgan Creek, Pine Gulch, Spring Creek, Sylvan and Williams Fork. Head on over to the About the FTB tab if you’d like to see where they located are on an interactive map. The purpose of the FBF is to provide an early outlook for flood threat awareness, but all real-time Flash Flood Warnings will continue to be issued by your local National Weather Service office.
- Monthly streamflow tracking for select high-volume sites across the state. Locations that will be tracked can be seen in the image below. Any interesting trends with the data will be tracked in the FTO when the data becomes available in the first week or two of each month. We will also add a dropdown tab under the “Flood Threat Outlook” tab so you can access the streamflow tables at your convenience.
- The FTB headline will include a summary of FBF threats on elevated flood threat days. There will also be a hyperlink within the FTB headline summary that will allow you to click and be redirected to the dedicated FBF portion of the website for more information. This will allow users who have email subscription to see all headlines in their email.
- FTB threat GIS geojson file used in the maps will be available for download. If you would like to show this data for your application, please fill out the “Contact” portion under the “Subscribe” tab for more information.
- Technical training for the FTB products is tentatively scheduled for mid-June. We’ll use our social media accounts to announce the exact date for the training soon. To follow us on social media (Twitter and Facebook), you can search the handle @COFloodUpdates or click the respective social media image on the bottom bar of this website. Not a subscriber to our daily FTB emails, but are interested? Head to “Subscribe” tab at the top of this page or CLICK HERE.
Looking forward to serving you for Colorado’s upcoming rainy season!
