1. National Weather Service Missouri Basin River Forecast Center Mid-West Electric Consumers Association Annual Meeting Water & Power Panel 11 December 2018 Kevin Low, P.E.

2. National Weather Service Organization

3. National Weather Service Field Office Organization
122 Weather Forecasts Offices
“WFO”
13 River Forecast Centers
“RFC”
Based upon radar coverage
Based upon watersheds

4. National Weather Service Missouri Basin River Forecast Center

5. Backbone of our Operations
National Weather Service Missouri Basin River Forecast Center
Backbone of our Operations
Delft-FEWS is an open data handling platform initially developed as a flood forecasting and warning system. Essentially it is a sophisticated collection of modules designed for building a hydrological forecasting system.

6. Break-down of our river forecast model

7. What we do near-term river forecasts (next 5-days)
long-range river outlooks (next 3 months)
reservoir inflow forecasts (next 5 days....or longer as requested)
water supply forecasts (water year, thru September)
spring flood outlooks (through early Summer)
flash flood guidance (for next 1-hour, 3-hour, 6-hour)
gridded precipitation estimates (24-hour totals)

8. other River Forecast Center products

9. Data we use

10. State, Regional and Federal Coordination

11. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOURI BASIN RIVER FORECAST CENTER
THANKS!!!!
Kevin Low, P.E.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
MISSOURI BASIN RIVER FORECAST CENTER