As of last week the National Weather Service (NWS) will implement a reformat and consolidation of our flood products.

Specifically,

· NWS Flash Flood Watches and Flood Watches will be consolidated into one Flood Watch product for expected heavy rainfall events. Examples of this change are included in the attached document.

· In the rare event that a dam (or levee) failure or significant ice jam flooding may occur, we will continue to issue the Flash Flood Watch product.

· Previous Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisories and Small Stream Flood Advisories will now be called just Flood Advisories. Again refer to the attached document for examples.

· Flood products will all now use the bulleted WHAT... WHERE... WHEN... IMPACTS... format, similar to how other NWS warnings look.