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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.
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.
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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.
Sep 26, 2013 · (Daniel Kramer/Houston Press) On September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall in Texas at the north end of Galveston Island, sending a 10- to 15-foot storm surge into Galveston and parts of...
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NEAR LATITUDE 26.3 NORTH...LONGITUDE 90.4 WEST OR ABOUT 445 MILES... 715 KM...EAST-SOUTHEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS AND ABOUT 340 MILES. ...545 KM...SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON TEXAS. IKE IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH...19 KM/HR...AND. THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24.
Hurricane Ike: News & Videos about Hurricane Ike - CNN.com. Wearing jeans and rubber boots, clutching Bibles and weeping between hymns, residents of the storm-shattered Texas coast...
