View Hurricane Rita Storm Surge Map Images. Nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html) • hurricane storm surge inundation mapping (gesch, 2007b;stoker et al., 2009;gesch, 2009b) • hydrologic derivative products from elevation data (berelson et al., 2004 ;franken, 2004) • extraction of surface drainage features (poppenga et al., 2009). Here's hurricane laura's storm surge forecast compares to recent large gulf hurricanes.
Hurricanes katrina and rita in 2005 reached category 5 strength — which requires sustained winds of at least 157 m.p.h.
— while in the gulf of mexico but made landfall as category 3 storms. Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from sea rim state park, texas, to intracoastal city becky clements, 56, evacuated from lake charles after hearing that it could suffer a direct hit, almost exactly 15 years after hurricane rita destroyed the city. 3 is an arbitrary value representing the storm surge. Storm surge is often deadly.