storm tide

plural storm tides · alternative stormtide

1. countableuncountableA rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.

   All About Camille -- the Great Storm, Dan Ellis, 2000 →ISBN The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide.

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   At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads.

   Monthly weather review, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1920

   South Florida and Louisiana, August 23-26, 1992: Natural Disaster Survey -- Jennifer J. Wilson, James P. Travers, 1997 →ISBN Storm surge is water height above normal tide level. Storm tide is the water height relative to NGVD, the mean sea level of 1929.

   Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.

   Synonyms: hurricane tide