Inundation Maps News Today

The National Weather Service introduced a new online tool Thursday that will allow weather experts to predict weather flooding up to 10 delays in advance.

Saturday saw much of the SoCal coast under a tsunami advisory after a volcanic eruption in Tonga. Are you in the flood zone in the event of a bigger tsunami?

Two biggest cities in louisiana, baton rouge and new orleans. some of the worst case scenarios would put more water in new orleans, 20 feet of water, and it would be worse than katrina. theyre sending water down the river basin. this is the mellon canal. this is going to start backing up as the water feeds in here. it will probably cover up where im standing and go across this roadway, but again the inundation maps say were in the 0 to 5 foot range. if the water goes up 5 feet and theyre saying ...

Mayor of myrtle beach, south carolina. mayor, im very happy we were able to arrange this tonight. im told we have a bit of a satellite delay. lets start off with what youre being told. there was some forecast models tonight that had this storm kind of banging up against the coastline and then drifting south a little bit. that would not be good news for myrtle beach. >> absolutely not, brian, and this storm is so massive that, really, no matter where it hits, so many of us will be impacted. north...

So we really are very, very concerned about this storm. >> the people who predict such storms have terrible things called inundation maps, and theyre designed for public officials like you to tell you, to show you how bad it might get. how much of myrtle beach is in the potential danger zone, the inundation zone from storm surge? >> we are in the zone. as i think you are aware. governor mcmaster did call for a mandatory evacuation of all three zones in the myrtle beach area. that is hardly ever ...

Mayor, im very happy we were able to arrange this tonight. im told we have a bit of a satellite delay. lets start off with what youre being told. there was some forecast models tonight that had this storm kind of banging up against the coastline and then drifting south a little bit. that would not be good news for myrtle beach. >> absolutely not, brian, and this storm is so massive that, really, no matter where it hits, so many of us will be impacted. north carolina, south carolina, virginia, an...