SLOSH Model Maps

[logybogy]

Anyone know of a website with SLOSH model maps? I'm curious what Katrina's storm surge would have been if she hit Miami instead of New Olreans as a Cat 4.

[Rainband]

Not as bad. The Atlantic is deep. The shallow waters off the Gulf Coast made the Storm surge that much worse.

[jdray]

I have yet to find a comprehensive model site yet.

I did find one for Jacksonville that the Naval Command at Mayport NAS did.
If a Cat 5 hits just south of the mouth of the St Johns River, the model showed a 20+ foot storm surge in downtown Jacksonville.

[curtinnc]

Not as bad. The Atlantic is deep. The shallow waters off the Gulf Coast made the Storm surge that much worse.

Think you are right there Rainband. Shallow waters close offshore there in the gulf makes water stack up easy, and makes it harder for it to retreat as well...

[Air Force Met]

You won't find it. It's a FEMA program (software). Some private weather services have found a copy...ut by and large it is a government in-house computer program.

[Patrick99]

Anyone know of a website with SLOSH model maps? I'm curious what Katrina's storm surge would have been if she hit Miami instead of New Olreans as a Cat 4.

The storm surge would have hurt some areas, but definitely not as bad. I posted something a couple days ago - I'm not all that far from the bay, yet I'd be fine as far as storm surge, even in a Cat. 5.

Another thing about storm surge in Miami - it recedes. Some homes (mostly the richest ones along Biscayne Bay) will be badly flooded, but that inundated state will not last so long. Miami is somewhat higher ground, relatively speaking, than most people think - it sits on a rather substantial bed of elevated limestone. Definitely different dynamics going on here than in New Orleans and other parts of the upper Gulf coast.