SOP for Flood Forecasting & Early Warning - UNESCO Islamabad

i) a pre-flood familiarization training has been started since last few years to acquaint the newly inducted
people of Irrigation and WAPDA with the commonly used hydromet terms.
ii)
Flood forecasting and warning Center was redesignated as the National Flood Forecasting Bureau
(NFFB) having the following constitution.
Director PMD
Director Hydrology WAPDA
Representative of Indus Water Commission
Director Floods (Irrigation)
(Head)
(Member)
(Member)
(Member)
In 2001, PMD has upgraded the post of Director NFFB and now Chief Met. (BS-20) is heading this office with the
new name Flood forecasting Division. The chief meteorologist FFD is authorized to call the meeting of
the FFD as and when the serious flood situation occurs and / or lack of coordination comes to his notice
calling for immediate remedial action.
Iii )
FFD has taken in hand the dissemination of the flood forecasts/ warning to considerably a large number
of recipients directly or indirectly concerned with the flood mitigation process, over and above the
dissemination being done by the FWC.
iv)
Press briefings have been started in the office of the Chief Meteorologist FFD as a regular feature to
ensure correct and authentic and weather information to the public. Such briefings are arranged through
the representative of the Punjab information department on duty at the FWC, only when the flood
situation is or likely to become serious enough to call for such briefings.
Considerable improvement has been made in the dissemination system since the time that it was initially started. A
much better coordination now exists with WAPDA Regular meeting or verbal advice is given by Chief
Meteorologist FFD to G.M (Planning & Coordination) WAPDA during the flood season as and when
asked for .
4.3 Updated Flood Warning dissemination Procedure
The existing dissemination process has been reviewed and lists of the recipients of flood information have been
streamlined. Basically there are two types of flood information required to be provided for use by the
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