Diego Cerrai, Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, Marika Koukoula, and Emmanouil Anagnostou,

thank you very much again for submitting your brief communication manuscript
'Hurricane Dorian: automated near-real-time mapping of the “unprecedented”
flooding on the Bahamas using SAR'. Two referee reports are available with some important points raised regarding the scope of your work and validation of the applied method. I would like to thank you for your responses to these comments and
I am positive that a revised version of your manuscript will address these points appropriately. Therefore, I have decided for minor revisions.
As a next step, I kindly ask you to provide a revised marked up (track changes) version of your
your manuscript to make clear how you include the changes in response to the referee report.
Please also take note of the specifications regarding pages, figures, etc. for brief communication manuscripts (https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/about/manuscript_types.html).

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Best regards
Kai Schröter

Diego Cerrai, Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, Marika Koukoula, and Emmanouil Anagnostou,

thank you very much again for submitting your brief communication manuscript
'Hurricane Dorian: automated near-real-time mapping of the “unprecedented”
flooding on the Bahamas using SAR'. Two referee reports are available with
major comments raised regarding the scope of your work and the validation of the
applied method, and accordingly major revisions are needed.
Reading your responses to these comments I am positive that a revised version of your manuscript will address these points appropriately.
As a next step, I kindly ask you to provide a revised marked up (track changes) version of your
your manuscript to make clear how you include the changes in response to the referee report.
Please also take note of the specifications regarding pages, figures etc. for brief communication manuscripts (https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/about/manuscript_types.html).

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Best regards
Kai Schröter

Diego Cerrai, Qing Yang, Xinyi Shen, Marika Koukoula, and Emmanouil Anagnostou,

thank you very much again for your responses and revisions of your manuscript. The referee reports for these major revisions are now available. Both of them agree that your manuscript has improved and that you have addressed most of the comments. However, some additional revisions are requested. Some of them refer to comments from the previous round of major revisions.
I kindly ask you to take the specific comments of both reviewers into thorough consideration and rework the manuscript accordingly. Sharpening the focus of your paper is an important recommendation. Therefore, I decide on minor revisions.
Please provide a revised marked up (track changes) version of your manuscript to make clear how you include the changes in response to the referee report.

I look forward to receiving the revised version of your manuscript.

Best regards
Kai Schröter

Dear Diego Cerrai and co-authors,

thank you for providing your responses and revision of your manuscript. Overall, I think you have addressed the remaining concerns of the referees and have given satisfactory replies. One exception is the statement in your conclusions in l 134 '... makes it the fastest fully automated method...' which I think is not fully supported by the results presented in your brief communication. I have made a suggestion to relax this statement in the annotated PDF.

Further, reading through the manuscript I have spotted some small technical things which you can find in the annotated pdf-file. Please check if you can correct them.

Best regards
Kai Schröter