PREFACE 



The information and data presented herein were assembled and analyzed 

 during 1985 to 1986 by authorization from the Office, Chief of Engineers 

 (OCE) , Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works Research and Development, as a 

 mission requirement of the Hurricane Surge Prototype Data Collection Work 

 Unit 321-31662. Messrs. John H. Lockhart, Jr., and John G. Housley are the 

 OCE technical monitors for the Coastal Engineering Research Area. 



The work unit is a multiyear project of the US Army Engineer Waterways 

 Experiment Station (WES) Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) , under 

 general supervision of Dr. James R. Houston, Chief, CERC, Mr. Thomas W. 

 Richardson, Chief, Engineering Development Division, and Dr. Dennis R. Smith, 

 Chief, Prototype Measurement and Analysis Branch. Mr. Andrew W. Garcia is the 

 Principal Investigator of the Hurricane Surge Prototype Data Collection work 

 unit. Mr. William S. Hegge is the engineer in charge of data collection ac- 

 tivities. This report was prepared by Messrs. Garcia and Hegge and edited by 

 Ms. Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Information Products Division, Information Technol- 

 ogy Laboratory, WES. 



A special acknowledgment is due Messrs. Geary McDonald and Harold Doyal 

 of the US Army Engineer District, Mobile, for their cooperation in acquiring 

 and assembling the high-water mark data and for providing interpretive guid- 

 ance thereon. 



This report is third in a series. Reports 1 and 2 provided similar data 

 on Hurricanes Chris and Alicia, respectively. 



Director of WES during the conduct of this study and preparation of this 

 report was COL Allen F. Grum, USA. Commander and Director of WES during pub- 

 lication was COL Dwayne G. Lee, CE, and Technical Director was Dr. Robert W. 

 Whalin. 



