GovBot Weather, Water & Floods

Read-only access to public weather, rainfall, river and flood records for a location, a state or a county. No account or sign-in is required.

Sources

• National Weather Service: seven-day point forecasts and active alerts (weather.gov), Local Storm Reports and storm-based flood warning polygons (as distributed by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet).
• FEMA: the OpenFEMA IPAWS public alert archive, and FEMA flood study water-surface elevations by annual chance from FEMA Map Service Center study tables.
• NOAA: MRMS radar-gauge daily rainfall estimates, NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency and National Water Prediction Service gauge metadata.
• USGS: active stream-site inventory. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: National Levee Database inventory.

Each result states its source and date. Live records are read from the publishers under their published terms; FEMA flood study tables are a dated snapshot.

Available operations

• Read the NWS forecast and active alerts for a latitude and longitude.
• Find past flood warnings, flood storm reports and archived public alert messages for a window.
• Read the estimated rainfall for a past day and the 100-year 24-hour rainfall depth at a point.
• Inspect a river gauge, list USGS stream sites and levee records in an area.
• List a county’s FEMA flood study streams and read modeled flood elevations along a stream.

The MCP endpoint is https://water.govbot.ai/mcp.

Scope and support

For current warnings and safety decisions, use official National Weather Service products at weather.gov, local emergency officials and Wireless Emergency Alerts. Archived and historical records are not current warnings. Rainfall frequency and flood study elevations are statistics and model results, not forecasts, observed water levels or regulatory determinations; the FEMA Flood Map Service Center is authoritative for flood maps. The service does not certify flood safety or provide insurance, engineering or legal determinations. GovBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA, the National Weather Service, FEMA, USGS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or any government agency.

For support, corrections or accessibility requests, email hello@govbot.ai. Do not send confidential or sensitive personal information.