Coastal Flood — Kings (Brooklyn), New York
October 29, 2012 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Coastal communities along Southern Brooklyn experienced two successive tidal cycles with at least moderate coastal flooding. The peak of this surge occurred Monday Night as Sandy made landfall in Southern New Jersey, with widespread record coastal flooding occurring along New York Harbor and Jamaica Bay exceeding the FEMA 100 year base flood elevations. Peak storm tides surpassed all previously documented high water marks, including the October 31, 1991 and December 11, 1992 nor'easters and the recorded peaks from Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Donna in 1960. ||The storm tide levels along the Brooklyn shores resulted from a peak storm surge of about 7 to 10 feet that coincided with normal high tides. These storm tides resulted in up to 3 to 5 feet of inundation along the northeaster
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.