Ike s effects included deaths widespread damage and impacts to the price and availability of oil and gas.
Satellite view of hurricane ike.
Cdt on september 13 2008 category 2 hurricane ike caused extensive damage in texas with sustained winds of.
The depression quickly strengthened into a tropical storm later that afternoon.
The center of the hurricane was near 23 8 degrees north latitude and 85 3 degrees west longitude moving 300.
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 the ninth tropical storm fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 atlantic hurricane season.
Max wind speed 145mph.
2008 this picture of hurricane ike from earlier today was downlinked by the crew of the international space station flying 220 statute miles above earth.
Making landfall over galveston at 2 10 a m.
The storm was a category 2.
Edt on september 11 2008 in a public advisory issued at 1 00 p m the national hurricane center warned that ike was a category 2 hurricane with winds of 160 kilometers per hour 100 miles per hour and that.
2008 hurricane ike was still a category 4 storm on the morning of sept.
The effects of hurricane ike in texas were crippling and long lasting.
Hurricane ike also had a long term impact on the u s.
Satellite iss images of hurricane ike.
36 hours of radar were compressed into 29 seconds.
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Hurricane ike sprawls over much of the gulf of mexico in this photo like image taken by the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer on nasa s terra satellite at 12 25 p m.
Satellite images and tracking maps of category 4 major hurricane ike 2008 september 1 15.
Moving west northwest ike strengthened into a hurricane on the afternoon of september 3rd and.
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View of hurricane ike from space station.
Time lapse radar of hurricane ike as it passes through galveston and houston texas.
On the morning of september 1st a tropical depression formed approximately 1750 miles east of puerto rico.
View of hurricane ike from space station 09 05 08 iss017 e 015162 4 sept.
4 when this photo was taken from the international space station s vantage point of 220 miles above the earth.