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Victoria flood warnings and flood watches

VicEmergency lists 24 Advice-level flood watches or warnings and 1 flooding incident in Victoria. Each entry links to the official warning, which has the advice for that area.

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Checked every 10 minutes from the VicEmergency public feed · Last received Fri, 2 Oct, 7:13pm AEST · Sources

Current flood watches and warnings

VicEmergency lists 24 Advice-level flood watches or warnings and 1 flooding incident in Victoria, as of Fri, 2 Oct, 7:13pm AEST. 2 Bureau of Meteorology weather warnings for heavy rain or flash flooding also cover this area.

Current flood watches and warnings
Level	Warning or incident	Area	Updated	Next update
Advice	Minor Flood Warning	Bunyip River at Iona	Fri, 2 Oct, 4:49pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 11:00am AEST
Advice	Minor Flood Warning	Bunyip River at Cora Lynn	Fri, 2 Oct, 4:48pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 11:00am AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Bunyip Catchment - Tarago River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:36pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Dandenong Creek	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:30pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Goulburn River downstream of Seymour	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:28pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Otway Coast	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:27pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 3:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Goulburn River Lake Eildon to Seymour	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:25pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Avon River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:22pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Traralgon Creek	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:21pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Goulburn River upstream of Lake Eildon	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:20pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	South Gippsland Rivers	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:20pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Thomson River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:19pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Barwon, Leigh and Moorabool Rivers	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:19pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 3:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Latrobe River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:19pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Macalister River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:18pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Mitchell River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:17pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Seven and Castle Creeks	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:16pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Broken River	Fri, 2 Oct, 2:11pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Avoca River	Fri, 2 Oct, 1:53pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 3:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Loddon River	Fri, 2 Oct, 1:52pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 3:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Ovens and King Rivers	Fri, 2 Oct, 1:49pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Kiewa River	Fri, 2 Oct, 1:46pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Upper Murray and Mitta Mitta Rivers	Fri, 2 Oct, 1:40pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
Advice	Flood Watch	Yarra River upstream of Warrandyte	Fri, 2 Oct, 12:55pm AEST	Sat, 3 Oct, 2:00pm AEST
BOM warning	Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Heavy Rainfall	Mallee and Wimmera	Fri, 2 Oct, 6:16pm AEST	–
BOM warning	Severe Weather Warning for Heavy Rainfall	Central, East Gippsland, South West and West and South Gippsland	Fri, 2 Oct, 4:54pm AEST	–
Incident	Flooding incident Request For Assistance	Tallangatta	Fri, 2 Oct, 6:53pm AEST	–

In a life-threatening emergency call 000. For flood or storm help call the VicSES on 132 500. Never drive, ride or walk through floodwater. VicEmergency Hotline: 1800 226 226.

Source: VicEmergency public data feed, © State of Victoria, Australia, used under CC BY 3.0 AU (data notice). Last update received by Atmosphr Fri, 2 Oct, 7:13pm AEST; feed last updated Fri, 2 Oct, 7:12pm AEST. Checked every 10 minutes. Bureau of Meteorology warnings are shown by title only and link to the Bureau. Atmosphr is not an emergency service: always check the linked official page before acting.

Rain outlook for Victorian towns and Melbourne catchments

Model rain totals for the past 24 hours and the next three days, wettest first. Heavy rain on already wet catchments is what turns a flood watch into a flood warning.

Rain outlook for Victorian towns and Melbourne catchments
Place	Past 24 h (model)	Next 24 h	Next 72 h	Highest hourly chance, 72 h
Yarra Glen (middle Yarra)	29 mm	49 mm	51 mm	91%
Bairnsdale	36 mm	13 mm	51 mm	100%
Warburton (upper Yarra)	30 mm	43 mm	47 mm	96%
Bayswater (upper creek)	24 mm	29 mm	30 mm	91%
Warrandyte (lower Yarra)	24 mm	28 mm	30 mm	91%
Sunbury (Jacksons Creek)	26 mm	25 mm	29 mm	100%
Keilor (lower river)	22 mm	22 mm	25 mm	98%
Geelong	8 mm	25 mm	25 mm	100%
Melbourne	24 mm	20 mm	22 mm	94%
Ballarat	9 mm	21 mm	21 mm	95%
Bendigo	23 mm	13 mm	13 mm	94%
Dandenong (lower creek)	23 mm	11 mm	11 mm	94%
Warrnambool	3 mm	6 mm	6 mm	80%
Mildura	16 mm	2 mm	2 mm	86%

Model forecast Open-Meteo best match via Open-Meteo (Weather data by Open-Meteo, Open-Meteo API terms (CC BY 4.0)), retrieved Fri, 2 Oct, 6:20pm AEST and refreshed hourly. "Past 24 h" is the model's estimate, not a rain gauge reading. Model rain is a guide to the size of an event, not a flood forecast: official flood warnings come from the Bureau of Meteorology and VicSES.

Melbourne river catchments

Each catchment page lists the warnings for that river and its creeks, the rain outlook across the catchment, and how the river behaves in a flood.

Yarra River: 1 current flood watch, warning or incident.
Dandenong Creek: 1 current flood watch, warning or incident.
Maribyrnong River: nothing currently listed.

Flood watch, flood warning and warning levels

Flood Watch: Issued for a catchment when forecast rain could cause flooding. It is an early heads-up: flooding has not started, and the watch is upgraded to a flood warning if it becomes likely.
Flood Warning (minor, moderate, major): Issued when flooding is happening or expected at named places along a river. Minor flooding causes inconvenience such as closed low-lying roads; moderate flooding can affect homes and require evacuation; major flooding means extensive inundation of properties and towns.
Flash flooding: Fast flooding from intense rain over a short time, common in cities and small creeks. It can arrive with little notice and is covered by BOM severe thunderstorm and severe weather warnings rather than river flood warnings.
Advice, Watch and Act, Emergency Warning: The three levels of the Australian Warning System that VicEmergency uses. Advice means stay informed. Watch and Act means conditions are changing and you need to take action. Emergency Warning is the highest level: act immediately.

What to do in a flood

Follow the advice on the official VicEmergency warning for your area, and leave early if you are told to.
Never drive, ride or walk through floodwater. It is often deeper and faster than it looks and can hide washed-out roads.
Keep children and pets away from drains, creeks and stormwater channels.
For flood or storm help call the VicSES on 132 500. In a life-threatening emergency call 000.
Prepare with the VicSES flood guides, and check BOM river heights for gauges near you.

Sources and how this page works

Warnings and incidents come from the VicEmergency public data feed, © State of Victoria, Australia, used under the EMV emergency data notice (CC BY 3.0 AU). Atmosphr checks it every 10 minutes, shows the time of the last update received, and lists each item by name, area and time only. It does not reproduce warning advice: follow the link to read it. If the feed cannot be reached for 30 minutes, this page stops listing warnings rather than show out-of-date ones.

Bureau of Meteorology warnings that appear in the feed are shown by title with a link to the Bureau. Rain figures are model forecasts, not official forecasts or gauge readings. See Victorian warning and emergency links for every official channel.