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Hurricane Ike (/ aɪ k /) was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a similar track to the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Ike made landfall at 2:10 am CDT Saturday, September 13th near Galveston, Texas. Ike was a category 2 hurricane at landfall with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.
Hurricane Ike - September 8-15, 2008 A tropical wave left the coast of Africa on August 28th. The system slowly organized, becoming a tropical depression, then a tropical storm, on September 1st. The cyclone moved westward for much of its lifetime as the subtropical ridge extended westward to its north. By the 3rd, Ike had
September 1-14, 2008. Hurricane Ike will long be remembered as one of the most devastating storm surge hurricanes to affect the Upper Texas and Louisiana Coasts within the last 150 years of records.
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.
The 2100 UTC 8 September forecast issued by National Hurricane Center (NHC), when Ike was still located near the southern coast of Cuba, indicated a U.S. landfall somewhere just south of Galveston Bay by 1800 UTC 13 September.
Sep 15, 2008 · Satellite images, weather maps and tracks of Category 4 Major Hurricane Ike 2008, 1 - 15 September. Max wind speed 145mph.
