Pakistan's national end-to-end flood monitoring, forecasting, and warning platform operated by the Flood Forecasting Division, PMD.
Mission: To protect lives and livelihoods across Pakistan by providing timely, accurate, and actionable flood warnings — integrating state-of-the-art observational networks, numerical weather prediction, and hydrological modelling to give communities and authorities the maximum possible lead time before flood events.
Real-time data streams from a nationwide network of automatic weather stations, manned observatories, WAPDA telemetric gauges, Doppler radars, and satellite feeds.
Observed data feeds into an ensemble of Numerical Weather Prediction and hydrological models to generate quantitative flood forecasts at multiple time horizons.
Forecasters issue calibrated warning products to the full emergency management chain — from national to district level — through multiple communication channels.
FFD operates and utilises the following ground-truth observation infrastructure across Pakistan:
FFD issues warnings across four operational forecast horizons, enabling both immediate response and advance preparedness planning.
0 – 6 hours
Radar QPE + AWS real-time alerts
1 – 3 days
NWP + FFGS flash-flood guidance
4 – 7 days
Ensemble NWP + hydrological routing
1 – 3 months
Rabi / Kharif seasonal forecasts
River conditions are classified into six levels based on observed discharge thresholds at each gauging site:
Pakistan's national flood EWS is built and sustained through partnerships with leading international meteorological, hydrological, and development organisations:
