Storm Monitoring Operations Santa Barbara County Flood Control District Hydrology Division

Storm Monitoring Operations

Santa Barbara County Flood Control District

Hydrology Division

Overview of Operations• Confer with meteorologists to assess timing

and severity of predicted storms.• Monitor “real time” data from remote weather

stations and stream gages during storm event.• Run SYR model to predict potential timing,

magnitude and location of flooding.• Coordinate with emergency services, other

County agencies and the media.

The ALERT SystemAutomated Local Evaluation in Real Time

• Field Stations

• Radio Repeaters

• Base Station Receiver/Decoder

• Flood Warning Software

Field Stations

Weather Station Stream Gaging Station

Santa Maria

Santa Barbara Base Station

Plowshare

Pk

Figueroa Mtn

La Cumbre Pk

Sudden Pk

Repeater

To FigueroaTo Plowshare To LaCumbre

To Sudden Peak

Repeater Frequencies

Plowshare Rx 171.85 Tx169.5Figueroa Rx 169.5 Tx 170.3

Sudden Rx 169.5 Tx 170.3La Cumbre x 170.3Tx 171.05

Base Station Rx 171.05

To Twitchell

Twitchell

Twitchell Rx 171.85 Tx 71.85

To Base Station

ALERT Network

Base Station Software

Santa Ynez River Flood Control Model

Agency Coordination

• National Weather Service

• County OES, Roads, others

• United States Bureau of Reclamation

• United States Geologic Survey

• Flood Control field staff

• Vandenberg Air Force Base

• Cloud Seeding Administrators