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USGS - Harvey High Water Marks


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Created: Apr 17, 2018 at 3:33 a.m.
Last updated: May 12, 2022 at 11:45 a.m. (Metadata update)
Published date: Nov 26, 2018 at 3:54 a.m.
DOI: 10.4211/hs.615d426f70cc4346875c725b4b8fdc59
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Abstract

During and after Hurricane Harvey, the US Geological Survey recorded high water marks across southeast Texas, as they do for every major storm. The files in this dataset provide 2123 high water marks for Hurricane Harvey flooding, among 1258 sites. These files were downloaded following the steps below. If you'd like to check the original sources again, or search for HWM for a different storm, you may find these directions helpful.

Finding, Downloading and Filtering USGS High Water Marks (HWM)
1. Visit USGS website: https://water.usgs.gov/floods/history.html, which lets you…
2. Click on Hurricane Harvey: https://www.usgs.gov/harvey, which lets you…
3. Click on green button Get Data: https://stn.wim.usgs.gov/fev/#HarveyAug2017
4. In left margin menu of resulting page, click a second Get Data link. This will open up the remaining options below.
5. Click each data type you want, such as High-Water Mark, Peak Summary, or Sensor Data. It’s only csv or REST (json or xml).

* I downloaded the HWM as csv, opened in Excel, clicked the Sort & Filter tool in Excel toolbar, clicked Filter, then filtered on "Harvey Aug 2017” in the popup list for column E (Event Name). I saved the result to a new spreadsheet which now has 2123 records, plus column labels in row 1.

* To understand the fields or columns of this table, see HWM_Peaks_Sensors_Data_Dictionary_20180329.xslx in the contents below.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
North Latitude
31.0149°
East Longitude
-93.0720°
South Latitude
27.6028°
West Longitude
-97.6987°

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README.md

USGS - Harvey High Water Marks

During and after Hurricane Harvey, the US Geological Survey recorded high water marks across southeast Texas, as they do for every major storm. The files in this dataset provide 2123 high water marks for Hurricane Harvey flooding, among 1258 sites. These files were downloaded following the steps below. If you'd like to check the original sources again, or search for HWM for a different storm, you may find these directions helpful.

Finding, Downloading and Filtering USGS High Water Marks (HWM)

  1. Visit USGS website: https://water.usgs.gov/floods/history.html, which lets you…
  2. Click on Hurricane Harvey: https://www.usgs.gov/harvey, which lets you…
  3. Click on green button Go To Data: https://stn.wim.usgs.gov/fev/#HarveyAug2017
  4. In left margin menu of resulting page, click a second Get Data link. This will open up the remaining options below.
  5. Click each data type you want, such as High-Water Mark, Peak Summary, or Sensor Data. It’s only csv or REST (json or xml).

  6. I downloaded the HWM as csv, opened in Excel, clicked the Sort & Filter tool in Excel toolbar, clicked Filter, then filtered on "Harvey Aug 2017” in the popup list for column E (Event Name). I saved the result to a new spreadsheet which now has 2123 records, plus column labels in row 1.

  7. To understand the fields or columns of this table, see HWM_Peaks_Sensors_Data_Dictionary_20180329.xslx in the downloadable contents below.

Data Services

The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

Related Resources

The content of this resource references USGS Flood Event Viewer [https://stn.wim.usgs.gov/fev/#HarveyAug2017]
This resource is referenced by “Zheng, X., D'Angelo, C., Maidment, D.R., and Passalacqua, P.. 2022. “ Application of a Large-Scale Terrain-Analysis-Based Flood Mapping System to Hurricane Harvey.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58( 2): 149– 163. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12987.”
This resource belongs to the following collections:
Title Owners Sharing Status My Permission
Harvey Flood Data Collections David Arctur · Harvey datamgr · Christine Thies  Published Open Access
Harvey Flood Data Collections 梁 炜轩  Private &  Shareable None
Hurricane Harvey Flood Data Collections David Arctur · Harvey datamgr · Christine Thies  Published Open Access

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID: Archiving and Enabling Community Access to Data from Recent US Hurricanes 1761673

Contributors

People or Organizations that contributed technically, materially, financially, or provided general support for the creation of the resource's content but are not considered authors.

Name Organization Address Phone Author Identifiers
Todd Koenig, P.E., Hydrologic Networks Branch U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Rolla, MO
Erika Boghici UT Austin Center for Water and the Environment

How to Cite

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), D. Arctur (2018). USGS - Harvey High Water Marks, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.615d426f70cc4346875c725b4b8fdc59

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