Environment Agency123WAF990Yorkshire
Whiston Brook catchment: flood history since 2014
The Environment Agency has issued 35 flood alerts for Whiston Brook catchment since 18 Jul 2014, most often in November; the busiest year was 2024 (6). The history file ends in June 2026; AreaZine's record of the live feed adds 2 since 1 July 2026.
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Whiston Brook catchment
- Code
- 123WAF990
- Environment Agency area
- Yorkshire
- County
- Rotherham
- River or sea
- Whiston Brook
- First in the history
- 18 Jul 2014
- Latest in the history file
- 14 Nov 2025
- Latest in AreaZine's record
- Flood alert, 30 Aug 2026
- Current status
- check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk (the Environment Agency's live page)
Flood alert, flood warning, severe flood warning: what each means
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The latest: since 1 July 2026, in AreaZine's record of the live feed
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026 | Flood alert |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Flood alert |
How many alerts and warnings a year?
Flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings (updates not counted), by year. 2026 runs to the end of June.
The numbers
| Year | Alerts | Warnings | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
When in the year?
All alerts and warnings since 2014 by month.
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Before July 2026: the latest in the history file
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2025 | Flood alert |
| 5 Jan 2025 | Flood alert |
| 31 Dec 2024 | Flood alert |
| 8 Dec 2024 | Flood alert |
| 24 Nov 2024 | Flood alert |
| 30 Sep 2024 | Flood alert |
| 15 Jul 2024 | Flood alert |
| 2 Jan 2024 | Flood alert |
| 17 Nov 2022 | Flood alert |
| 6 Feb 2021 | Flood alert |
| 27 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 24 Feb 2020 | Flood alert |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.