Hurricane Ike Projected Path
Tropical Storm Ike became Hurricane Ike, the fifth hurricane of the 2008 season, on August 3, 2008. Having ravaged coastlines in Cuba and the islands of Turks and Caicos, Ike made landfall in the Galveston Bay area of Texas, in the early hours of Saturday, September 13. By 9:00 a.m. EST Ike had weakened to a Category 1 hurricane as it moved inland.1As of 1:00 p.m. CDT on September 13, 2008, Ike had downgraded to a tropical storm.
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Fast Facts
- A Category 1 hurricane (as of September 13, 2008)
- Eye located at 30.5° north, 95.3° west1
- Maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour1
- Estimated central pressure is 962 millibars1
- Moving north 18 miles per hour1
Background
On September 6, Ike struck the islands of Turks and Caicos, causing damage to more than 80 percent of homes there.3 4 On the night of September 7th, Ike struck Cuba, forcing over a million people to evacuate their homes over the next two days.5
On September 12, Ike was a category 2 hurricane and was heading west-northwest towards Texas at 13 mph. Ike is expected to make landfall near the Galveston and Houston area as a Category 3 or even Category 4 hurricane on either Friday, September 12 or early Saturday, September 13.6
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