Hurricane Jeanne 2004 Preliminary Water Levels Report (Paperback)

NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) maintains a network of tide gauges along the eastern United States coast line, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. These tide gauges are actively monitored when storm events occur in the Atlantic. Data from the tide gauges that lie directly within the path of the storm can be triggered to appear in storm surge mode in real time on Tides Online. Storm surge is the observed water level minus the predicted water level referred to MLLW. Hurricane Jeanne had two major stages of impact. First Jeanne made landfall on Hispaniola as Tropical Storm and then after meandering through the Atlantic for a few days she made landfall again as a Category 3 Hurricane on Florida's mainland. Hurricane Jeanne effected tide gauges in the Caribbean, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Currently CO-OPS monitors 2 tide gauges in the Virgin Islands, 2 in Puerto Rico, 34 in Florida, 2 in Georgia, and 5 in South Carolina.