The 2014 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment Faye E. Barthold 1,2, Thomas E. Workoff 1,3, Wallace A. Hogsett 1*, J.J. Gourley 4, and David R. Novak.

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The 2014 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment Faye E. Barthold 1,2, Thomas E. Workoff 1,3, Wallace A. Hogsett 1*, J.J. Gourley 4, and David R. Novak 1 With special thanks to Brian Cosgrove, NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrologic Development 1 NOAA/NWS/Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD 2 I.M. Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD 3 Systems Research Group, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO 4 NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK *Current Affiliation: Weather Analytics, Bethesda, MD

Motivation On average, flooding results in ~$8 billion in damages and ~90 fatalities per year 7 of the last 10 NWS Service Assessments have involved flooding WPC Excessive Rainfall Outlooks Day 1-3 forecasts Highlight probability that rainfall will exceed flash flood guidance at a point WPC Mesoscale Precipitation Discussions Event-driven forecasts Highlight regions where heavy rainfall may lead to flash flooding in the next 1-6 hours

Lessons Learned from 2013 FFaIR High resolution convection- allowing guidance can provide valuable information about the flash flood threat, particularly when paired with hydrologic information Forecast verification extremely difficult – no single comprehensive source of information about observed flash flooding ?

Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment July 7-25, participants representing operations, research, and academia Daily Activities 18 hr CONUS probabilistic flash flood outlook (18-12 UTC) Prototype of next generation ERO 6 hr event-driven probabilistic flash flood forecasts (18-00 UTC and UTC) Forecast discussion Used to brief concurrent HWT-Hydro experiment Subjective evaluation Explore the utility of convection-allowing models in the flash flood forecast process

Featured Model Guidance ProviderModelResolutionForecast Hours EMCParallel NAM* 12km (parent) 4km (nest) 84 (parent) 60 (nest) ESRL/GSDHRRR3 km15 SPC SSEO (7 members) 4 km36 WPC Modified SSEO (7 members) 4 km24 EMC NCASE-TL (15 members) 4 km12 ESRL/GSD ExREF (8 members) 9 km84 *The parallel NAM used during the experiment became operational on 12 August 2014 Parallel NAM HRRR SSEO Modified SSEO NCASE-TL ExREF

Ensemble Forecast Tools Neighborhood Probabilities Probability of an event occurring within a certain distance of a grid point 40 km radius Accounts for spatial uncertainty in the forecast 1.4”2.4”.78” 2.3” 2.7” 3.7” 2.8” 4.3” 1.8”    Is QPF > 2”?Max member QPF

Ensemble Forecast Tools Neighborhood Probabilities Events Probability of QPF exceeding a threshold (e.g. 3”) Probability of QPF exceeding FFG Probability of QPF exceeding % FFG QPF > FFGQPF > 90% FFG QPF > 75% FFG

Flash Flood Verification Database WPC flash flood verification database NWS Local Storm Reports Flash flood Flood NSSL mPING reports of flooding USGS stream gauge exceedance information Postgres database updated throughout the day to capture latest observations Can request data for user-defined time periods Yellow – flash flood LSR Blue – flood LSR Brown – mPING Pink - USGS

“Practically Perfect” Analysis Technique Converts point observations into contoured probabilistic forecast areas using a Gaussian weighted function Work in progress Consider including additional data Heavy rain LSRs Flash flood warnings QPE Consider weighting datasets differently based on quality of data source and relevance to flash flooding

Experiment Findings The NWS needs to have a more consistent approach to the flash flood problem from definition, to warning practices, to reporting Inconsistencies from WFO to WFO result in a moving target when trying to identify where flash flooding has occurred Convection-allowing ensembles are invaluable to the flash flood forecast process, especially when paired with hydrologic data in the form of neighborhood probabilities Helps account for spatial uncertainty in both QPF and the hydrologic response

Experiment Findings Flash flood forecasting in the western U.S. represents a more significant challenge Need both improved model guidance and improved forecaster understanding of the unique drivers of flash flooding in the west Updating WPC’s Excessive Rainfall Outlook to use a neighborhood probabilistic approach will provide more inclusive forecast guidance highlighting the threat for flash flooding

Future Work Explore alternative hydrologic information for neighborhood probabilities Precipitation recurrence intervals Make neighborhood probabilities of QPF > FFG available via FTP Continue to explore improved flash flood forecast verification Refine practically perfect technique Make verification database publically accessible Full experiment report available at: