In this 3D model, animation shows what just 3 feet ... Stronger storms will produce a larger storm surge. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm at landfall, produced a 28-foot storm ...

Storm surges capable of submerging coastal areas ... But how do these swirling weather patterns develop? To develop, a hurricane, or tropical cyclone, requires a number of conditions: The first ...

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

Palm Beach County has a 50% chance of a named storm passing within 50 miles of its coast. That’s above the climatological average of 42%.

The high water tide from the ocean that inundates the land during hurricanes, colloquially known as storm surge, is the leading ... there are websites dedicated to hurricane dangers and what ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN)-- The National Hurricane Center is no longer including storm surges and flooding in its hurricane categories out of concern that people aren't heeding proper warnings ...

Extreme weather and disaster scientist Hal Needham, founder of the U.S. Storm Surge Database, U-SURGE, discusses how the ...