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REPORT NUMBER 
Technical Report CERC-84-6 
5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 
TITLE (and Subtitle) 
HURRICANE ALICIA STORM SURGE AND WAVE DATA Final report 
6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 
8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(s) 
AUTHOR(S) 
Andrew W. Garcia 
Thomas H. Flor 
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PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 10. 
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US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station 
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Coastal Engineering Research Center 
PO Box 631, Vicksburg, Missssippi 39180-0631 
CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 12. REPORT DATE 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY November 1984 
US Army Corps of Engineers 13. NUMBER OF PAGES 
Washington, DC 20314-1000 89 
14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME & ADDRESS(if different from Controlling Office) 15. SECURITY CLASS. (of this report) 
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Unclassified 
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SCHEDULE 
16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of this Report) 
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 
17. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the abstract entered in Block 20, if different from Report) 
18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 
Available from National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road 
22161. 
Springfield, Virginia 
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20. ABSTRACT (Continue om reverse sides ff necessary and identify by block number) 
A summary of storm surge highwater mark hydrograph and wave data ac- 
quired during and subsequent to Hurricane Alicia is presented. The data were 
obtained and assembled as part of a long-term research effort by the Corps of 
Engineers to establish a quantitative data set with the objective of providing, 
in a series of documents, the data necessary for simulation and verification 
The data contained herein were obtained primarily 
of numerical surge models. 
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