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At 06:00 UTC on September 4, Ike peaked with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (233 kilometers per hour) and a minimum barometric pressure of 935 millibars (27.6 inches of mercury ), making the storm a Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Apr 28, 2024 · Ike rapidly intensified into a major hurricane late that afternoon and into the evening hours, reaching a maximum intensity of 145 mph during the early morning hours on Thursday, September 4th. Continuing to move west and then west-southwest, Ike began to impact the Turks and Caicos Islands on Saturday, September 6th.
Sep 13, 2021 · With estimated maximum sustained winds of nearly 110 mph, Ike made landfall over Galveston Island as a Category 2 Hurricane at 2:10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. The storm killed dozens of...
Hurricane Ike was a Cape Verde-type hurricane, beginning as a tropical disturbance near Africa at the end of August. On September 1, 2008, it became a tropical storm. During the overnight hours of 1 September, Ike stopped intensifying, as northerly wind shear began to impact the system.
On the 7th, Ike moved through the southeast Bahamas into eastern Cuba. Briefly emerging into the northwest Caribbean, Ike remained a hurricane through its next landfall across western Cuba on the 9th. Land interaction appears to have made Ike a larger cyclone, and after emerging into the Gulf of Mexico, its central pressure
Ike strengthened only modestly through September 2nd. By 4 PM CDT September 3rd, Ike was upgraded to and 80 mph hurricane, and rapidly strengthened the next 12 hours to 145 mph by 4 AM CDT on September 4th, some 900 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean.
The hurricane weakened prior to continuing into the Gulf of Mexico, but increased its intensity by the time of its final landfall in Galveston, Texas, on September 13 before becoming an extratropical storm on September 14.
