Current Weather Forecasts, Advisories & Warnings:

• F2P2 Products (heavy precipitation outlook, basin-specific QPF, storm track prediction)
  • Meteorological Services Agreement
• NWS Products  (warnings, watches, advisories)
  • NWS Interactive Weather & Forecast Map
  • Local Storm Report

ALERT System Related:

• Current Status   Station Coordinates   Station Index Maps   Alarm Settings
  • Auto-email alarms (emergency services only)
• Stream Gage Calibrations: by ID Number  by Date
• Record High Water Measurements
• Operation & Maintenance: Standard Maintenance Agreement
  • Annual Maintenance Report
  • Current Data Analysis Report
  • Data Analysis Summary Report for 2006
• LDAD Files: Rainfall  Water Levels  Weather Data  Metadata
  Note: LDAD files are updated every 5 minutes.
• E-19 stream gauge field survey for Boulder Creek at Orodell (printer-friendly version)

Miscellaneous:

• Historical flood accounts:
  • NWS list of "Noteworthy Colorado Floods"
  • May 16, 2002 Rocky Mountain News
  • Bear Creek in Jefferson County
    • August 4, 2004 Canyon Courier
  • Boulder Creek and South Boulder Creek (excerpts from Boulder Creek Flood Warning Plan)
    • Boulder Valley Flooding History (Boulder Area Sustainability Information Network--BASIN)
    • 1894 Boulder Creek Flood Photos (BASIN)
    • South Boulder Creek Flood Photos (courtesy City of Boulder)
  • Tucker Gulch and Kenneys Run in Golden
  • Back issues of Flood Hazards News
    • Flood Reviews: 1987  1988  1991  1992  1993  1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000
                                                 2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007
    • Cover Stories: 1986  1988  1997  1998
    • Other related articles: 1989  1990  1991  2006  2007

• Flood safety tips, "self help" flood protection handbooks, flood hazard mapping and other useful public information:
  • Front Range Flood Hazards by FloodSafety.com
    • City of Boulder enhanced content
  • Flood Protection Handbooks
    • City of Arvada
    • Boulder County
    • City of Boulder
    • City and County of Denver
  • Colorado Severe Weather Awareness Week
    • NWS Participation
  • Colorado Division of Emergency Management
  • District Online Floodplain Mapping
  • Boulder Creek Flood Notebook (University of Colorado, Natural Hazards Center)
  • Remembering the 1976 Big Thompson Canyon Flash Flood (Fort Collins Coloradoan)
  • FEMA Flood Facts
  • NWS Flood Safety Information
  • FLASH (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes)
• Reports
  • Flash Flood Prediction Program (F2P2): 2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007
  • ALERT System Maintenance: 2003  2004  2005  2006  2007
  • ALERT System Capacity Evaluation 2007
  • ALERT Data Analysis: 2006  2007
    • Monthly Reports
• Flood Warning Research & Current Studies
  • An Evaluation of the Boulder Creek Local Flood Warning System
  • South Boulder Creek Flood Mapping Study

• Some useful websites:
  • National Weather Service
    • Local Denver/Boulder Forecast Office
    • Monsoon Tracker (NWS-Tucson)
    • Emergency Management Decision Support (EMDS)
    • Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN)
      • EMWIN Houston---District considering similar project for Denver area
      • EMWIN Denver
    • Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS)---see NHWC benefits report
      • AHPS Forecast Products---Central Region
      • July 3, 2002 news story
    • Local Flood Warning Systems Handbook
    • Floods: Among the Greatest Natural Disasters
  • Private Weather Services
    • HDR Hydro-Meteorological Services
    • Anything Weather.Com
  • Colorado River and Stream Information
    • Colorado Water Conservation Board Flood Information
    • Streamflow and WaterTalk from the Colorado Division of Water Resources
    • U.S. Geological Survey Real-time Water Data
    • NRCS Colorado Snow Survey
  • Webcams
    • Denver Traffic Cams
  • Weather and Climate Research Projects
    • Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Study (CoCo RaHS)
    • NCAR Research Applications Program (RAP)
    • FSL Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
  • Local Media
    • KWGN WB2 News
    • KCNC News4 (CBS affiliate)
    • KMGH 7News (ABC affiliate)
    • KUSA 9News (NBC affiliate)
    • KDVR Fox31
    • 850 KOA News Radio
    • Colorado Newpapers and Television Stations
  • Organizations
    • Institute for Business & Home Safety
    • National Hydrologic Warning Council
    • Prepare Colorado, a program sponsored by the American Red Cross
    • Colorado Emergency Management Association
  • More useful websites:
    • Lessons from Public Private Partnership 2000
    • USGS mud and debris-flow information
• AMS Policy Statement:  Prediction and Mitigation of Flash Floods

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