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Historic Flood Warnings

Summary

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA435. Listing of Severe Flood Warnings, Flood Warnings and Flood Alerts issued since the flood warning system went live on January 26th 2006 to the present. This dataset includes flood warnings issued by the Environment Agency. Flood warnings are issued for flooding from rivers and the sea and, for a limited number of locations, for groundwater flooding. There are three flood warning codes and a notification when warnings are removed. These are:

  • Severe Flood Warning: Severe flooding. Danger to life.
  • Flood Warning: Flooding is expected. Immediate action required.
  • Flood Alert: Flooding is possible. Be prepared.
  • Warning no longer in force: Flood warnings and flood alerts that have been removed in the last 24 hours. Live flood warnings in force are shown on GOV.UK and are available as a separate live feed on GOV.UK.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Open Government Licence

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

quarterly

Lineage

Historic record of flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings issued by the Environment Agency's using Floodline Warnings Direct (January 2006 to April 2017) and Flood Warning System (from April 2017 onwards).

Spatial information

Coordinate reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

88bed270-d465-11e4-8669-f0def148f590

Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 April 2006

Revision date

04 April 2025

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 26 January 2006
  • To: 31 March 2025

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