Offshore rise of water associated with a low pressure weather system.
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Examples for "storm flood "
1 If the " storm flood " came early in the season, before the cattle had been housed, there was a worse story to tell.
2 Living alongside rivers is increasingly perilous, as stronger-yetoften less frequent-stormsflood communities.
3 Some of the banks were built as levees after destructive storm floods in 1974.
4 The category one storm flooded large parts of the western division on the main island… Audio
5 The storm flooded Socotra's villages and capsized boats, leaving much of the island without access to communications.
1 The bureau also warned of a potential dangerous storm tide with "damaging waves and dangerous flooding".
2 Many shorelines are occupied by barrier islands, which are shaped by offshore sedimentation processes and annual storm tide events.
3 Police and State Emergency Service volunteers have been doorknocking in red zones which are predicted to be affected by the storm tide .
4 Residents between Ayr and St Lawrence are warned of a dangerous storm tide as the cyclone crosses the coast late this morning.
5 The peak storm tide hit Christchurch about 3:15pm on Saturday, the highest recorded in 13 years at Sumner.
1 Michael obliterated Mexico Beach and Panama City, delivering 14ft in storm surge .
2 There were no reports of significant damage or storm surge , however.
3 Entergy officials are concerned that the high storm surge would damage the plant.
4 Sandy's huge storm surge pushed the Atlantic Ocean way above its normal level.
5 Again and again the news reports warned of the storm surge .
6 WPA-built seawalls along coastal beaches had withstood the brutal storm surge .
7 They drove to the beach on Friday afternoon to view the storm surge .
8 Buller Civil Defence said the high-tide came and went without a major storm surge .
9 Experts believe most of the damage to come from the typhoon's resulting storm surge .
10 The water from the storm surge receded almost as quickly as it had come.
11 A storm surge , if it comes, lasts hours, days maybe.
12 Tacloban suffered enormous damage during Haiyan and its storm surge .
13 But emergency workers are continuing to prepare for high winds, rain and storm surge .
14 Hanna could bring a life-threatening storm surge and flash flooding.
15 The storm surge had pushed it at least a mile inland from the docks.
16 Fearing a storm surge , we headed upstairs to my room.
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