Case history analysis, cross spectra and multiple regression analysis have been used in a study of low-pass filtered sea level records from the Pacific mainland coast of Mexico in 1971 and 1973–75. During the summer-fall season (May–October), sea level variability is characterized by strong alongshore coherence and nondispersive, poleward phase propagation over a wide frequency range (0.02–0.37 cpd). The strength and clarity of the propagating signals seem to be related primarily to large-amplitude events of elevation (10–30 cm) that are generated off the southern coast of Mexico by tropical storms. These events are typically forced by the alongshore, poleward movements of the storms to as far north as 20°N, and thereafter continue to propagate freely at least as far as Guyamas (28°N). Large, variable phase speeds (250–500 km day−1 are observed in the southern region, consistent with the alongshore speeds of the forcing. A multiple-input statistical forcing model, in which adjusted sea level is r... Abstract Case history analysis, cross spectra and multiple regression analysis have been used in a study of low-pass filtered sea level records from the Pacific mainland coast of Mexico in 1971 and 1973–75. During the summer-fall season (May–October), sea level variability is characterized by strong alongshore coherence and nondispersive, poleward phase propagation over a wide frequency range (0.02–0.37 cpd). The strength and clarity of the propagating signals seem to be related primarily to large-amplitude events of elevation (10–30 cm) that are generated off the southern coast of Mexico by tropical storms. These events are typically forced by the alongshore, poleward movements of the storms to as far north as 20°N, and thereafter continue to propagate freely at least as far as Guyamas (28°N). Large, variable phase speeds (250–500 km day−1 are observed in the southern region, consistent with the alongshore speeds of the forcing. A multiple-input statistical forcing model, in which adjusted sea level is r...