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A storm surge refers to the abnormal rise of sea water level due to hurricanes and storms; traditionally, hurricane storm surge predictions are generated using complex numerical models that require high amounts of computing power to be run, which grow proportionally with the extent of the area covered by the model. In this work, a machine-learning-based storm surge forecasting model for the Lower Laguna Madre is implemented. The model considers gridded forecasted weather data on winds and atmospheric pressure over the Gulf of Mexico, as well as previous sea levels obtained from a Laguna Madre ocean circulation numerical model. Using architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) combined, the resulting model is capable of identifying upcoming hurricanes and predicting storm surges, as well as normal conditions in several locations along the Lower Laguna Madre. 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