There will be certain modifications made to the flash flood warning criteria that the National Weather Service Charleston uses in order to issue advisories in the Lowcountry that will be implemented.
Compared to a flood advisory, which is something that occurs frequently in the TriCounty area, a flash flood warning is an elevated warning.
When an area that is already extremely saturated receives more rainfall and is unable to sustain the amount of rain that falls in that time frame, flash flood warnings are issued.
Sadly, flash flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters that we face.
This is due to the fact that moving water is extremely powerful; we are aware that living in close proximity to the ocean can cause cars to be thrown off the road and can cause individuals to fall.
In order to make its flash flood warnings more impact based, the National Weather Service Charleston is trying to change the advisory criteria that they use.
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Multiple roads or intersections that are flooded and closed to traffic, vehicles that are stranded and/or stalled in flood waters, structures that are surrounded by flood waters, a non-forecast point river gauge that is higher than its minor flood stage, and a dam or levee failure that is occurring or imminent are some of the new criteria.
The new criterion will not have any impact on the manner in which the team prepares viewers for these occurrences, and there will still be a sufficient number of warnings.
Its sole purpose is to align with the ever-changing trends in predicting.
TriCounty emergency departments will get together on Tuesday to discuss how they will react to these shifting warnings and how they will respond to them.
