The storm is expected to bring “unsurvivable” storm surge of up to 20 feet to the Big Bend area, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, which called it a “nightmare surge ...

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre details the federal emergency efforts as Hurricane Helene is set to make landfall as a Category 3 with an "unsurvivable" 20-foot storm surge.

A storm surge is water that is pushed onto shore by a hurricane. It is rarely a "wall of water" as often claimed, but rather a rise of water that can be as rapid as several feet in just a few minutes.

Helene's size, intensity and speed delivered wind gusts much farther inland than most hurricanes and sent a devastating storm surge along more than 550 miles of Florida coastline. When it was ...

Before the storm's landfall an 18-foot surge with huge waves develops in Lake ... A head of water almost 20 feet high destroys houses in the immediate vicinity of the breach and pushes others ...