Storm photos and video
Flood waters cover the playground at Gloucester Point Park. Thursday, Nov 12 2009 at 5:00 pm EST. Photo by David Forrest.
Entrance to the VIMS Boat Basin. Thursday, Nov 12 2009 at 4:30 pm EST. Photo by David Forrest.
Coastal flooding in Hayes, Virginia. Photo by Joe Cope.
A vehicle navigates a flooded road in Hayes, Virginia. Photo by Joe Cope.
The Gloucester Point Public Fishing Pier. Thursday, Nov 12 2009 at 4:29 pm EST. Photo by David Forrest.
The Gloucester Point Public Boat Ramp. Thursday, Nov 12, 2009. 9:08 am EST. Photo by David Forrest.
Greate Road Gloucester Point, Virginia with storm surge from the nor'easter covering Greate Road. 5 pm EST on Thursday November 12 2009. Photo by Stephanie K. Salisbury.
Eastern Shore Lab Flooding of the Hatchery Building at the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory in Wachapreague, Virginia. 5pm on November 12th, 2009. Photo by Mark Luckenbach.
VIMS Eastern Shore Lab Flooding near the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory in Wachapreague, Virginia. Photo by Mark Luckenbach around 5pm on November 12th, 2009. Photo by Mark Luckenbach.
Boat Basin The VIMS Boat Basin. 8:03 am. Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Aquaculture Facility Flood waters affect the Aquaculture Facility in the VIMS Boat Basin. 8:02 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Flood waters in Franklin Hall in the VIMS Boat Basin. 7:49 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Franklin Hall Flood waters in Franklin Hall in the VIMS Boat Basin. 7:52 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Bay Eagle Flood waters in the VIMS Boat Basin raise the R/V Bay Eagle above the level of the bulkhead. 8:04 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Wading Marine scientist Erin Shields in the VIMS Boat Basin with the VIMS Aquaculture facility in the background. 9 am, Thursday November 12, 2009. Photo by Dave Parrish.
Gloucester Point Park Flood waters enter Gloucester Point Park. 9:17 am, Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Oyster Pump House Flood waters cover the Gloucester Point Public Boat Ramp near the VIMS Oyster Pump House. 9:19 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Boat Ramp Flood waters cover the Gloucester Point Public Boat Ramp. 9:20 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Queens Lake Marina The storm tide from the nor'easter floods the Queens Lake Marina. The marina lies on Queens Creek, a tidal tributary of the York River near Williamsburg. 7:30 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Jenkins Neck Jenkins Neck, Virginia. 8:15 am on Thursday November 12. Photo by Capt. Voight C Hogge.
Vessels Operation Center The new Vessels Operation Center at VIMS was built on an elevated foundation to avoid storm-surge flooding. 7:59 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Gloucester Point Fishing Pier Flood waters impinge on the Gloucester Point Public Fishing Pier. 9:22 am on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
A significant coastal-flooding event is occurring along the mid-Atlantic coast, as a low-pressure remnant from Tropical Depression Ida is traveling up the Atlantic seaboard. The coastal low is interacting with high pressure over New England to set up a pressure gradient that is bringing strong, gusty winds and significant storm tides to tidewater Virginia and other areas along the East Coast. Statements from the National Weather Service Office in Wakefield VA are comparing this scenario to a nor'easter in February 1998 that brought the highest storm tides to the lower Chesapeake Bay since the Ash Wednesday storm of March 1962.
Storm-surge guidance from the Global Forecast System (GFS) forecasts a storm surge of 5.5 feet for Hampton Roads (Sewells Point) late Thursday and Friday. If this surge occurs at the time of predicted high tide of 3.2 feet on Thursday and Friday, the potential exists for a storm tide of up to 8.5 feet above MLLW, which would exceed the values during Hurricane Isabel and come very close to the values reached during the Ash Wednesday Storm of March 1962.
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NOAA Extratropical Storm Surge Prediction
National Ocean Service Water Level Observation Network
Web Cam: VIMS Teaching Marsh (updates every 30 minutes)
Effects of the November 2009 Nor'easter on Water Levels (NOS Technical Report)