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  • NOAA Hurricane Preparedness: Storm Surge
    Article on the dangers of storm surges. Includes notes on past major storm surges, as well as safety precautions.
    www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/storm_surge.shtml
  • Wikipedia: Storm Surge
    Hyperlinked article on the storm surge, a weather phenomenon often associated with a low pressure weather system such as a tropical cyclone.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_surge
  • USA Today: Storm Surge Adds to Hurricane Danger
    Article and interactive graphic illustrating the hazards of storm surge flooding that includes information on how forecasters predict and prepare for surges.
    www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wsurge/wsurge.htm
  • Storm Surge: A Concern To Coastal Residents
    Brief article with a video describing storm surges, the rising of the sea level due to the low pressure, high winds, and high waves associated with a hurricane as it makes landfall.
    ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/damg/surg.rxml
  • NOAA Tides Online
    Monitoring storm surges generated by hurricanes and tropical storms. The NOAA site includes maps that pinpoint U.S. costal regions affected by storm tides.
    storms.nos.noaa.gov
  • Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge From Hurricanes (SLOSH)
    Learn about the computerized model designed to estimate storm surge depths resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes by taking into account a storm's pressure, size, forward speed, forecast track, wind speeds, and topographical data.
    www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/nhp/slosh_link.shtm
  • Storm Surge - FEMA Hurrican Hazards
    Provides information on the causes and possible effects of storm surges, the high storm tides created by the force of the winds swirling around the tropical cyclones.
    www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/hu_surge.shtm
  • Hurricane Track: Hurricane Storm Surge
    Find information on the deadly phenomenon of storm surge flooding, a phenomenon that historically is responsible for significant damages and loss of life.
    hurricanetrack.com/surge.html
  • NOAA Extratropical Water Level Forecast
    Access the data NOAA utilizes to predict and monitor storm surges. The manual includes a number of graphs and regional maps, pulling in data from monitoring stations around the U.S.
    www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/etsurge
 



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