A bar like feature, deposited on the public beach at Carrabelle, Florida during Hurricane Eloise, was investigated in order to determine its mode of formation. Statistical evaluation of grain size data, as well as interpretation of internal structures preserved within the feature and measurements of ripple marks preserved within an adjacent runnel, indicate that the feature was not the result of deposition due to swash. The linear feature's existence is instead attributed to a significant increase in sea level, resulting from a storm tide generated by the passage of Hurricane Eloise near the area. This temporary increase in sea level acted to effectively shift the processes of offshore bar formation onto the normally subaerial portions of the beach. With recession of the anamolous water levels, a bar was exposed and preserved above the limits of normal wave activity .The depositional feature is therefore termed a "stranded bar" in as much as it was stranded due to sea level fluctuations resulting from a storm tide.