storm surge

noun

1. an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.

Example Sentences

As of early September, hundreds more grants and contracts had yet to be approved, including funding for replenishing the agency’s supply of boxed drinking water, rent for facilities, storm surge monitoring data and the updating of flooding maps, including for flood-prone regions such as Kerr County, Texas, where flash floods this summer killed more than 135, including children.

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Residents across North Carolina’s Outer Banks and coast braced for flooding from a storm surge and powerful winds as Hurricane Erin churned hundreds of miles away in the Atlantic Ocean.

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There was a storm surge Wednesday evening and more are expected Thursday, said Tom Lonka, a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Newport/Morehead City, N.C., office.

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A storm surge of up to 4 feet remained possible.

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According to NOAA, the greatest threat to life actually comes from the water – in the form of a storm surge.

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