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Disaster & Flood

Flood monitoring, CEB and LECO power notices, and DMC bulletins aggregated on Lankawa.

DMC bulletins

Latest Disaster Management Centre headlines from the public RSS feed.

All news

No DMC RSS headlines available right now.

Headlines only — verify the linked DMC bulletin before acting.

Cyclone watch (JTWC / GDACS)

Tropical cyclone events in the Indian Ocean / South Asia window.

Stale

Basin quiet — no active tropical cyclone events in the GDACS window.

Seasonal watch from GDACS TC events. Not a Met Dept cyclone warning — verify official bulletins.

GDACS provenance

Preparing map

Checking Data Saver before loading the interactive map.

GloFAS basin discharge

Open-Meteo Flood simulated river discharge near major basin centroids.

Fresh

Kelani basin (Colombo)

143.5m³/s

Latest discharge

149752026-09-072026-09-20

Mahaweli corridor (Kandy)

45.6m³/s

Latest discharge

49262026-09-072026-09-20

Kalu basin (Kalutara)

172.0m³/s

Latest discharge

178872026-09-072026-09-20

Checked 9/15/2026, 1:00:45 PM · Complements local river gauges — not an official DMC flood warning.

Power outages

CEB Care national schedule/outages beside LECO Western/coastal interruption notices.

CEB Outage Map & Load-Shedding Status

Live breakdown outage map details and scheduled load-shedding letter groups (A–Y)

Seed fallback — live API unavailable
Source: /sources/ceb_outages_seed

⚠️ Seed fallback — live API unavailable

Upstream CEB Care API is offline or unreached. Displaying curated static seed dataset snapshot (`ceb-outages-seed.json`) with honest provenance linking.

Active Breakdown Outage Map Details (6 Areas Monitored)

Total Impacted: 16,200 customers
Colombo WestUnplanned Breakdown

Western Province North

4,500 customers10:15 AM
Kandy CityTransformer Fault

Central Province

2,300 customers11:00 AM
Galle FortFeeder Breakdown

Southern Province

1,800 customers09:30 AM
GampahaEmergency Maintenance

Western Province South

3,100 customers08:45 AM
Jaffna TownSubstation Maintenance

Northern Province

2,900 customers07:20 AM
KurunegalaLine Tripping

North Western Province

1,600 customers11:45 AM

Scheduled Load-Shedding Rotation (Letter Groups A–Y)

Ascheduled

08:0010:30

Colombo North, Kelaniya, Wattala

Bscheduled

10:3013:00

Dehiwala, Mount Lavinia, Moratuwa

Cscheduled

13:0015:30

Kandy City, Peradeniya, Katugastota

Dscheduled

15:3018:00

Galle Fort, Karapitiya, Matara

Escheduled

18:0020:30

Kurunegala Town, Kuliyapitiya, Wariyapola

Fscheduled

08:0010:30

Gampaha, Negombo, Ja-Ela

Gscheduled

10:3013:00

Kalutara, Panadura, Horana

Hscheduled

13:0015:30

Ratnapura, Balangoda, Eheliyagoda

Ischeduled

15:3018:00

Anuradhapura, Kekirawa, Tambuttegama

Jscheduled

18:0020:30

Jaffna City, Nallur, Chavakachcheri

Kscheduled

08:3011:00

Batticaloa, Kattankudy, Eravur

Lscheduled

11:0013:30

Trincomalee, Town & Gravets, Kinniya

Mscheduled

13:3016:00

Badulla, Bandarawela, Ella

Nscheduled

16:0018:30

Nuwara Eliya, Hatton, Talawakele

Oscheduled

18:3021:00

Kegalle, Mawanella, Rambukkana

Pscheduled

08:3011:00

Matale, Dambulla, Ukuwela

Qscheduled

11:0013:30

Hambantota, Tangalle, Ambalantota

Rscheduled

13:3016:00

Monaragala, Wellawaya, Bibile

Sscheduled

16:0018:30

Polonnaruwa, Kaduruwela, Hingurakgoda

Tscheduled

18:3021:00

Vavuniya, Cheddikulam, Northern Division

Uscheduled

09:0011:30

Kilinochchi, Paranthan, Pallai

Vscheduled

11:3014:00

Mannar Island, Murunkan, Nanaddan

Wscheduled

14:0016:30

Mullaitivu, Puthukkudiyiruppu, Maritimepattu

Xscheduled

16:3019:00

Ampara, Kalmunai, Sammanthurai

Yscheduled

19:0021:30

Biyagama, Seethawaka, Avissawella

CEB (national)

National supply status

Status unknown

Checked 9/15/2026, 1:00:44 PM

Power status unavailable — CEB Care could not be reached

No affected areas reported in the latest CEB Care check.

Source: CEB Care demand-management schedule and present-outage map (cebcare.ceb.lk).

LECO (Western)

Western / coastal LECO status

Scheduled cuts

Fresh

Checked 9/15/2026, 1:00:44 PM

7 LECO branch(es) list current-month scheduled interruptions

Affected areas

  • Galle: GALLE
  • Galle: AMBALANGODA
  • Galle: HIKKADUWA
  • Kalutara: KALUTARA
  • Kalutara: ALUTHGAMA
  • Kalutara: PAYAGALA
  • Moratuwa: MORATUWA
  • Moratuwa: PANADURA
  • Moratuwa: KESELWATTA
  • Nugegoda: NUGEGODA
  • Nugegoda: MAHARAGAMA
  • Nugegoda: BORALESGAMUWA

LECO covers Western coastal branches only. Scheduled notices are scraped from leco.lk — verify with LECO 1910 before acting.

LECO interruption notices provenance

Outage concentration by district

Heuristic mention counts from CEB and LECO affected-area labels — not an official feeder map.

DistrictMentions
Galle3
Kalutara3

District scores are string-match heuristics on area labels. Missing a district does not mean clear supply.

Irrigation river gauges

Latest public Irrigation Department ArcGIS readings for major river stations.

Down

Normal

39

stations

Alert

1

stations

Warning

0

stations

Danger

0

stations

Basin rain watch

  • Kirindi OyaΣ 60 mm· max 33 (Kuda Oya)
  • Mahaweli GangaΣ 11 mm· max 11 (Weraganthota)
  • Kelani GangaΣ 6 mm· max 6 (Norwood)
  • Walawe GangaΣ 1 mm· max 1 (Moraketiya)
  • Heda OyaΣ 0 mm· max 0 (Siyambalanduwa)
  • Kalu GangaΣ 0 mm· max 0 (Rathnapura)
  • Aththanagalu OyaΣ 0 mm· max 0 (Dunamale)
  • Deduru OyaΣ 0 mm· max 0 (Moragaswewa)

+ 11 more basins

Σ sums station rainfall per basin; max is the wettest gauge. Irrigation Dept gauge telemetry — 24h accumulation where reported.

Magura

Kalu Ganga

ALERT
Water level
4.47 m
Rainfall
0.0 mm

9/15/2026, 10:38:35 AM

As of 9/15/2026, 10:56:34 AM · 1 elevated · Civic republish of Irrigation ArcGIS — not an official DMC flood warning.

Source provenance · Irrigation ArcGIS dashboard

Landslide / slope risk

NBRO/DMC early-warning context for highland districts — morning-sized, not an evacuation map.

Tip bulletin parseStale

Watch districts (tip bulletin)

3

Warning districts (tip bulletin)

0

Civic republish of DMC/NBRO tip bulletin Landslide EW Report (2026-09-15 10:00). District watch/warning tiers parsed from the public lk_dmc layout index — not an official evacuation map.

As of: 2026-09-15 · Tip bulletin parse

Districts in latest tip bulletin

Not an official evacuation order. Verify the latest NBRO/DMC PDF before acting. Lankawa is a civic republish of public bulletin layout — not the NBRO Early Warning app.

Source provenance · Latest bulletin PDF · NBRO

Met Dept warnings

Weather warnings and advisories from the Department of Meteorology public dashboard.

Issued 9/15/2026, 11:02:14 AM

No active Met Dept warnings

The public advisory dashboard reports no active weather warnings for today.

Live Met Dept feeds only — Lankawa never fills this panel with curated seed warnings. Unavailable means the advisory API could not be reached; empty means the dashboard reports no active hazards.

Source: Department of Meteorology Weather Advisory System (was.meteo.gov.lk).

Data provenance

Satellite & regional hazards

NASA FIRMS fire pins over Sri Lanka and GDACS multi-hazard events in the wider Indian Ocean / South Asia window.

Active fires (FIRMS)

NASA FIRMS provenance

Stale

Set NASA_FIRMS_MAP_KEY to enable live FIRMS CSV pulls. Empty pins are shown until then — not a claim of zero fire risk.

GDACS regional alerts

GDACS provenance

Fresh
  • Flood in India

    Green

    Type: FL · Country: India

    GDACS report

Earthquake monitor

USGS catalog entries within Sri Lanka's land area — shown without severity scoring.

Fresh

Window: last 30 days · magnitude ≥ 2.5

Box: 5.9°N–9.9°N, 79.5°E–82.1°E: 5.9,79.5 9.9,82.1

No qualifying earthquakes

USGS reports no magnitude 2.5+ events inside Sri Lanka's land bounding box in the last 30 days.

Monitoring box: 5.9°N–9.9°N, 79.5°E–82.1°E (same bounds as the district map).

Offshore Indian Ocean events outside this land box are not listed here.

Source: USGS FDSN Event Web Service (earthquake.usgs.gov).

Data provenance

Flood monitoring

River station alert levels from the public flood API.

NORMAL

39

stations