Get Hurricane Storm Surge Height Pictures. Hurricane florence's massive storm surge threatens to drown communities and sweep people, buildings and vehicles away in the carolinas. But it's actually storm surge.

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Along the coast, storm surge is often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane. My guess is the max surge was less than 1 m (<2 feet). Portions of a boat dock and boardwalk were destroyed by powerful storm surge from hurricane florence in september 2018, in atlantic beach.

The winds push the water down, but as the huge volumes of water reach the shallows near the shore, they're forced up onto the land, causing floods.

A storm surge is an abnormal rise of seawater that occurs when water is pushed inland as a result of high winds from a storm, usually tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones). Hurricane katrina's storm surge exceeded hurricane camille's at all survey locations. The category four storm is approaching texas and louisiana with maximum sustained wind speeds of 150 miles per hour (240km/h). And it's why storm surge is often the deadliest aspect of hurricanes.