Data field · Event · Geographic area

River flood category

The observed flood category at a river gauge, such as no flooding, minor, moderate, or major, pinned to valid time, gauge thresholds, units, and source status.

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Sources that carry it

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NOAA National Weather Service

National Water Prediction Service API

Public operational API for NWPS hydrologic products. A buyer can list gauges by bounding box or retrieve a gauge by NWS LID or USGS ID. Gauge responses include location metadata, observed stage/flow status with units, valid time and flood category, configured action/minor/moderate/major flood thresholds, and observed stage-flow time series; forecast data are also present but are not the observation capability asserted here.

Free API National US 3 fields

Questions it helps answer

River stage and discharge during the event

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