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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.
Apr 28, 2024 · Hurricane Ike produced a damaging, destructive and deadly storm surge across the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts, and will likely end up being the third costliest natural disaster in the United States behind Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew.
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.
Sep 13, 2008 · HOUSTON Hurricane Ike made landfall at Galveston, Tex., early Saturday as it threatened to devastate it and other towns along the Gulf of Mexico with a wall of seawater 20 feet high. Despite...
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.
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.
