STANDARD FEATURES AT ALL ACCOUNT LEVELS
Track Rainfall
WaterWatch PRO uses NOAA data to monitor rainfall and sends you a notification via text and/or email when sufficient rain meets a threshold you define within a 24-hour period. This provides you with hyper-focused, accurate and timely rainfall data for any location in the U.S. - right on your mobile phone.
Whole U.S. Rainfall Forecasts
WaterWatch PRO provides updated daily precipitation forecasts for the Continental U.S. from the National Weather Service. This gives you a general idea of when rain might occur for the next three days.
Daily & Monthly Reports
Each month, receive an emailed report of the hourly, daily, and monthly rainfall for your monitored locations. Also, WaterWatch PRO sends you a daily text and email notification of the prior day's rainfall at each monitored location. Automate your record-keeping and lower your operating costs.
Contact Notifications
WaterWatch PRO notifies you and the contacts you define about rainfall at your monitored locations. *NEW* in 2022 - assign roles to contacts to permit them administrative access or only view data. This eliminates the need for multiple app downloads within an organization. Another way WaterWatch PRO helps you be more productive and lower operating costs.
Monitor Multiple Locations
Need to monitor multiple locations? Your upgraded WaterWatch PRO account lets you define as many as you wish for as long as you need.
THE DIGITAL NOAA DATA WE USE
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is the parent government organization of the National Weather Service (NWS), processes digital representations of rainfall. One of the tools used by NOAA compiles and analyzes Doppler radar-derived precipitation measurements, generating hourly grids with data points spaced at 1-km (1/2-mile) intervals across the continental United States – a so-called “rainfall map.”
This highly detailed picture of hourly data is based on a combination of various sources:
· Precipitation data from a network of 180 NWS-maintained overlapping dual-polarization Doppler radar networks.
· Analysis of nearly 20,000 rain gauges.
· Satellite data processed at 15-minute intervals.
· Observations from hourly automatic reporting instruments (often located at airports).
· Numerical models and climatology.
Among other uses, this digital rainfall map is input to NWS flood guidance, producing flash flood forecasts essential to public safety. In operation since 2014, this integrated weather data stream was awarded a NOAA Silver Medal in 2015, one of the highest recognitions conferred by NOAA.
The key to this approach is the process of incorporating rain gauges into the hourly data stream alongside Doppler radar-derived rainfall measurements. Doppler radar computes precipitation based on the empirical relationship between radar reflectivity measured from the beam and the rainfall rate.
However, the beam is located above the ground, meaning it does not fully capture the amount of rain reaching the ground. Therefore, incorporating available rain gauges enhances the accuracy of the rainfall determined from the radar data.
WaterWatch PRO collects and processes this hourly digital rainfall map. It then utilizes a proprietary method to identify a client’s GPS location within the nearest 1-km grid section.
During processing, no further data interpolation is made of the client’s GPS location within the 1-km grid field.
Our proprietary method delivers more precision to critical stormwater monitoring rainfall measurements. By using a computerized, automated system, WaterWatch PRO accounts for variances in time and space.
This process makes WaterWatch PRO an ideal way to account for highly localized rainfall events, producing a reliable NOAA data source you can confidently trust.