Flood early warning and river flood forecasting
A flood early warning system is only useful if the warning is clear and arrives in time to act. KAI-Hydro runs a calibrated forecast for your river sites every day and turns it into a plain Normal, Watch or Warning, with the expected peak and its date, and alerts by email or SMS.
Rivers rise faster than warnings travel. Forecast products exist, but most are maps and probabilities that nobody on the ground has time to interpret.
Our solutionKAI-Hydro runs a daily forecast for your river sites from rainfall forecasts and observed levels, and turns it into a plain statement: Normal, Watch or Warning, with the expected peak and its date. Alerts go out by email or SMS when a threshold is forecast.
Who it is for: Districts, utilities, humanitarian agencies, insurers, developers
- Lead time measured in days, not hours
- Thresholds agreed with you, not imposed
- Plain words, not probability maps
- Forecast skill reported every month
How it works, step by step
Sites
Choose forecast points and gauges.
Thresholds
Agree Watch and Warning levels.
Model
Calibrate the basin model on past events.
Run
Daily 5-day forecasts.
Alert
Email and SMS when a level is forecast.
What powers this solution
Interested in flood forecasting and early warning?
Contact our team today, or start in the KAI portal.
Guides on this topic
- Anticipatory action trigger design: from a forecast to a decisionHow anticipatory action triggers turn a forecast into a decision: readiness and action thresholds, lead time, hit and false alarm rates, and protocols.
- Flood early warning system design: what a district or utility actually needsFlood early warning system design: forecast points, Watch and Warning levels agreed with users, lead time and skill checks, with WMO and GloFAS guidance.
- Rating curve development and river surveys: getting flood levels rightRating curve development step by step: ADCP gaugings, datum checks, fitting, extrapolation above the highest gauging, hysteresis and HEC-RAS calibration.