nws-flood-thresholds

nws-flood-thresholds is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for downloading official flood-stage thresholds from the NWS, the United States National Weather Service. The thresholds show when water levels reach action, minor, moderate, or major flood stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download threshold data in bulk or look up an individual station's flood levels, then match those levels with observed water measurements.
Why use it?
It provides the reference levels needed to interpret USGS gauge readings consistently for specific stations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to download threshold data in bulk or look up an individual station's flood levels, then match those levels with observed water measurements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/nws-flood-thresholds
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,764 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill nws-flood-thresholds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,014 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.01014
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00101

Measured 9d ago against content hash f0a534dad207, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nws-flood-thresholds scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import urllib.request
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/flood-risk-analysis/environment/skills/nws-flood-thresholds/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NWS Flood Thresholds Guide

Overview

The National Weather Service (NWS) maintains flood stage thresholds for thousands of stream gages across the United States. These thresholds define when water levels become hazardous.

Data Sources

Option 1: Bulk CSV Download (Recommended for Multiple Stations)

https://water.noaa.gov/resources/downloads/reports/nwps_all_gauges_report.csv

Option 2: Individual Station Pages

https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/<station_id>

Example: https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/04118105

Flood Stage Categories

Category CSV Column Description
Action Stage action stage Water level requiring monitoring, preparation may be needed
Flood Stage (Minor) flood stage Minimal property damage, some public threat. Use this to determine if flooding occurred.
Moderate Flood Stage moderate flood stage Structure inundation, evacuations may be needed
Major Flood Stage major flood stage Extensive damage, significant evacuations required

For general flood detection, use the flood stage column as the threshold.

Downloading Bulk CSV

import pandas as pd
import csv
import urllib.request
import io

nws_url = "https://water.noaa.gov/resources/downloads/reports/nwps_all_gauges_report.csv"

response = urllib.request.urlopen(nws_url)
content = response.read().decode('utf-8')
reader = csv.reader(io.StringIO(content))
headers = next(reader)
data = [row[:43] for row in reader]  # Truncate to 43 columns
nws_df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=headers)

Important: CSV Column Mismatch

The NWS CSV has a known issue: header row has 43 columns but data rows have 44 columns. Always truncate data rows to match header count:

data = [row[:43] for row in reader]

Key Columns

Column Name Description
usgs id USGS station ID (8-digit string)
location name Station name/location
state Two-letter state code
action stage Action threshold (feet)
flood stage Minor flood threshold (feet)
moderate flood stage Moderate flood threshold (feet)
major flood stage Major flood threshold (feet)

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 124 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f0a534dad207

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nws-flood-thresholds is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,764 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,014 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.