The strong winds of hurricanes get all the TV time when a storm hirs, but it's the storm surge that often causes the most damage and leads to the most deaths. Now meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center have developed a new warning system that informs people 36 to 48 hours in advance of a dangerous storm surge.

Originally released by American Institute of Physics, 2015. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 25, 2015.

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