FlowAi

Onboarding guide · Chapter 12

Write a flood report

Commercial · admin or editor

  1. In an area, open the Report tab and press + New report.
  2. Under Choose message type, pick one of your message levels. It fills the summary and recommended actions with your defaults. Or choose Custom report for a one-off document with no level or number.
  3. The Choose message type dialog listing the organisation's five message levels and Custom report
    Choose message type.
  4. Fill in the header: Valid until, Next update, Issuing officer and Title. Tick the Hazards that apply (ice, snowmelt, heavy rain, dam operations) and press Add their advice to Recommended actions.
  5. Under Affected area, pick the municipalities, sub-watersheds and road crossings at risk.
  6. A draft Flood Watch: the workflow buttons, the message details form, the affected area picker and the widgets panel
    A draft Flood Watch: header on the left, affected area and widgets on the right.
  7. In Current conditions, press Insert latest readings; in Forecast, Insert latest forecast; in Weather forecast, Insert latest weather forecast. Choose the gauges and press Insert: one sentence per gauge goes in as ordinary text you can edit. It replaces the section's text, and Ctrl+Z (⌘Z) undoes it.
  8. The Insert latest readings dialog listing flow and level for each gauge in the area, with Select all and Insert
    Insert latest readings: pick gauges and measurements.
  9. The Current conditions section filled with one sentence per gauge and measurement, beside the widgets panel
    The inserted sentences, now ordinary text you can edit.
  10. Edit the text of each section. Rename, reorder, add or remove sections as you need.

Widgets

Click a section, then pick from Widgets to add live tables, charts and maps to it:

  • + Hydrograph (flow, level or inflow), with the median band, your thresholds and 6-hourly or daily values.
  • + Current conditions and + Forecast summary: each gauge against your thresholds, and the forecast by lead day with its peak.
  • + Level forecast summary, + Weather table, + Basin weather table and + Conditions: rain, snow and wetness.
  • + Map of the affected area and + Map of flow and level.
  • + Upload image, which adds an image from a web address, with a description for screen readers.

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