storm tide

See also: stormtide

English

Alternative forms

• stormtide

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.

See also

• storm surge

Further reading

• storm tide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia