The open coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama needed a system to help estimate a hurricane’s damage and the effects it would have on the coastlines of the southern United States. ARA was asked to help generate estimations of storm damage — storm surge heights, wave heights, and wind speeds.

• Use HURSURGE and HURWIND computer models to produce results

• Create maps of inundated areas, maps of wind speeds, and maps of wave heights over the flooded portion of the coast

• Produce time series of wind speeds, wave heights, and flood depths at a number of locations to aid in the determination of the sequence of wind vs. flood damage