Publication Citation

USGS Series Open-File Report
Report Number 2008-1373
Title Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding From Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana, September 2008
Edition Version 1.0 Online Only
Language ENGLISH
Author(s) McGee, Benton D.; Goree, Burl B.; Tollett, Roland W.; Mason, Robert R., Jr.
Year 2008
Originating office Louisiana Water Science Center
USGS Library Call Number
Physical description No pagination; Zip File
ISBN
Northernmost latitude 0303000
Southernmost latitude 0283000
Easternmost longitude -0890000
Westernmost longitude -0923000

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Abstract

On August 29-31, 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a mobile monitoring network consisting of 124 pressure transducers (sensors) (figs. 1, 2) at 80 sites over an area of about 4,200 square miles to record the timing, extent, and magnitude of inland hurricane storm surge and coastal flooding generated by Hurricane Gustav, which made landfall in southeastern Louisiana on September 1. One-hundred twenty-one sensors from 61 sites (fig. 3) were recovered. Thirty-seven sites from which sensors were recovered were in the New Orleans area, and the remaining 24 sites were distributed throughout southeastern Louisiana. Sites were categorized as surge (21), riverine flooding (18), anthropogenic (affected by the operation of gates or pumps) (17), or mixed/uncertain on the basis of field observations and the appearance of the water-level data (5).