storm tide

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Etymology

From storm +‎ tide.

Noun

storm tide (plural storm tides)

  1. A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
    Synonym: hurricane tide
    • Monthly weather review, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1920
      At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN
      Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.

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