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Sep 26, 2022 · To help prepare residents for what they can expect, the National Hurricane Center has an interactive map that shows the impact storm surge can have along Florida's coast, as well as along the Eastern seaboard and in the Gulf of Mexico to Texas.
Sep 8, 2017 · With the threat of a hurricane like the destructive Irma comes the threat of a storm surge. The hurricane is expected to bring waves of seawater into low-lying areas of South Florida.
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- Introduction to The Risk Maps
- What's New with Version 3
- Technical Description
- Data Availability and Download
- Data Citation and Disclaimer
This national depiction of storm surge flooding vulnerability helps people living inhurricane-prone coastal areas. These maps make it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending many miles inland from the immediate coastline in some areas. Storm Surge Risk Maps are provided for the U.S. Gulf and E...
Reprocessed U.S. Gulf and East Coast with latest SLOSH grids in 2021 and at an improved grid cell sizeAddition of Southern California, Guam, American Samoa, and Yucatan Peninsula MapsThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), specifically the National Weather Service's (NWS) National Hurricane Center (NHC), utilizes the hydrodynamic Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model to simulate storm surge from tropical cyclones. Storm surge information is provided to federal, state, and local partner...
Storm surge risk maps are available for Texas to Maine, Puerto Rico, USVI, Hawaii, Southern California, Guam, American Samoa, Hispaniola, and the Yucatan Peninsula. The data are available in GeoTIFF (https://www.ogc.org/standards/geotiff/) format for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Comprehensive metadata are provided with each...
The first version of the SLOSH storm surge hazard maps, released in November 2014,was published in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Weather, Climate andSociety, titled "A National View of Storm Surge Risk and Inundation".The publication is available online at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00049.1and the p...
Sep 8, 2017 · Hurricane Irma will bring severe hurricane conditions to Florida by Sunday. Florida will see destructive winds, storm surge, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes. Florida's west coast will...
Sep 8, 2017 · This map displays live data generated by the National Hurricane Center, which is currently tracking the paths of the three named storms swirling in the Western Hemisphere: Irma, Katia and...
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This report provides results from a rapid appraisal of impacts to fishing communities in Florida from Hurricane Irma; separate reports are being prepared for Puerto Rico and USVI. This report also serves as NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) 60 day assessment of impacts from these storms, a requirement for disaster declarations filed under MSA 315.