The last time on record that Tampa had 15 feet of storm surge was in 1848, according to one hurricane researcher.

H​urricane Milton continues to pose a grave danger to Florida, where its potentially historic strike will bring destructive, ...

It’s hard to find much of a forecast cause for optimism. Milton will combine a generational surge threat to west-central ...

Typically, a location will observe two high tides and two low tides within a day. A storm surge is an abnormal rise ...

Surge is also the amount above what the normal tide is at a time, so a 15-foot storm surge at high tide can be far more devastating than the same surge at low tide. Hurricane Katrina ...

Milton is nothing short of a meteorological monster. The minimum threshold for a Category 5 storm —the most powerful type of ...