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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.
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 16, 2015 · September 16, 2015. 1/27. An aerial photo shows damage by Hurricane Ike on Sept. 13, 2008 near the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas. (Larry Skiles) Seven years after Hurricane...
Hurricane Ike ( / aɪk /) 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.
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.
National Hurricane Center
