Flood news service Bavaria
The flood news service of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment in Augsburg warns in Bavaria the population against floods . According to his own admission, he is performing a state task that was enacted as early as 1883 by the first guidelines in Bavaria. Warnings are given against floods that can be caused by rivers and streams , but not against dangers from heavy rain or storms . Warnings about this fall within the remit of the German Weather Service . Its tasks are regulated in the ordinance on the flood service in Bavaria HNDV.
Data acquisition and publication
The HND takes into account the data from around 650 gauges in Bavarian waters, including rivers and lakes. Among them are around 550 measuring points of the Bavarian water management . Around 570 of all levels are automatically entered into the HND database via remote data transmission . The remaining water levels are transmitted by cooperation partners. As a rule, the data is updated every 15 minutes.
The flood intelligence service makes its information available online in the form of situation reports, warnings , maps and tables . If the specified water levels are exceeded, the HND informs the responsible water management authorities . From there, the information is sent to cities and municipalities via the registration offices of the district offices . They are responsible for organizing flood defense.
In addition to the level in Bavarian streams and rivers, the service also publishes data from selected measuring points of the precipitation stations and temperature measuring points as well as the groundwater level and from snow monitoring in Bavaria. The results are presented in cartographic and tabular form on the Internet.
Flood report and warnings
The flood situation is classified according to the following reporting levels:
- Reporting level 1: Small excesses in places.
- Reporting level 2: Flooded agricultural and forestry areas or slight traffic obstruction on main traffic and local roads.
- Reporting level 3: Individual built-up plots of land or basements are flooded or supra-local traffic connections must be blocked or isolated use of the water or dam weir is required.
- Reporting level 4: Built-up areas flooded to a large extent or large-scale use of water or dams required.
The flood warnings are classified as follows:
- Advance warning of risk of flooding
- Flood warning of embankments and floods
- Flood warning of flooding for built-up areas
- All clear
Individual evidence
- ↑ HNDV - Regulation on flood news service in Bavaria of 10 January 2005 retrieved 8 January 2009
- ↑ Roland Mitterbauer: HND: Warnings for local flash floods are not yet possible. Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
- ↑ On data acquisition at the HND ( memento of the original from August 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 9, 2009
- ↑ On the flood situation in Bavaria ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2009
- ↑ On the flood warning in Bavaria ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2009
