The Mohave County ALERT Flood Warning System

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The Mohave County ALERT Flood Warning System

• How to access data ..

Fred Weyermiller, Flood Warning Systems
Supervisor fred.weyermiller_at_co.mohave.az.us (928)
757-0925
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• Lets say that we would like to know how much
  rainfall the Meadview area has received in the
  past 2 days.

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• From the ALERT System main page, click on
  Rainfall Maps

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• Select the Map and Time Step you are
  interested in. In this example we selected
  Meadview and 2 Days. Now click on the
  Submit button.

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• A map is generated from the server with the
  location and time step you selected. By default,
  if you leave this map open it will automatically
  update every five minutes.

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• By following the same steps and selecting
  different maps from the list, you can access
  rainfall data for many other locations throughout
  Mohave County.
• Historic rainfall data is maintained on the
  server which in most cases allows the user to
  access up to several years worth of data.

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• Now lets say we would like to know what the
  current road conditions are on Hualapai Mountain
  Road.

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• From the ALERT System main page, click on
  Animated Graphics.

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• Select Hualapai Mountain RWIS from the templet
  list and click on the Submit button.

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• An animated graphic is displayed with the
  current data for the location you selected. By
  default, if you leave this screen open it will
  automatically update every 60 seconds.

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• By following the same steps and selecting a
  different templet from the list, you can access
  real-time animated graphics for other Road
  Weather Information Systems and full weather
  stations.

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• Now, lets say that we are interested in
  monitoring the stream flow of the Sacramento Wash
  in Golden Valley.

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• From the ALERT System main page we will select
  Animated Graphics.

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• Select Upper Sacramento Valley Basin Stage
  from the templet list and click on the Submit
  button.

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• An animated graphic is displayed for the
  selection. The hydrographs associated with the
  sensors along the wash would identify any
  activity recorded from the base station server.
  By default, this screen will update every 60
  seconds.

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• By following the same steps and selecting a
  different templet from the list, you can access
  real-time animated graphics for other stream flow
  gages.

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• And finally, lets take a look at a different
  way to view the data that is generated from the
  Mohave County ALERT Flood Warning System.
• Since data from the ALERT system is uploaded to a
  variety of agencies including the Arizona
  Department of Water Resources, we will take a few
  steps to link to their website which is
  maintained by the Salt River Project.

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• From the ALERT System main page, click on the
  GIS Gage Map icon.

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• Click on Launch Map Viewer to view the GIS
  information for all of the ALERT sites in Mohave
  County.

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In the toolbar, locate the identify icon and
click on it.
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• Click on the site you are interested in. In
  this example we clicked on the 7650 Wikieup
  site. The results of our inquiry are displayed on
  the right side of the page. Now click on the
  More data URL.

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• A new link is opened to the ADWR Flood
  Drought Monitoring site. From here you can not
  only see the data in a different format, but you
  can also view plotted historical data.

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• These are just a few of the different ways
  that you can access real-time weather information
  from the Mohave County ALERT Flood Warning System.