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Hurricane Ike. 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. The ninth tropical storm, fifth hurricane ...
Hurricane Ike also had a long-term impact on the U.S. economy. [1] Making landfall over Galveston as a Category 2 hurricane, at 2:10 a.m. CDT [2] on September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage in Texas, with sustained winds of 110 mph (180 km/h), a 22 ft (6.7 m) storm surge, and widespread coastal flooding. [2] [3] [4]
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The earliest hurricane to hit the U.S. was Hurricane Agnes on June 19, 1972, and the latest was Hurricane Kate on Nov. 21, 1985, when it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle. Hurricane Ivan ...
Hurricane Debby drenched parts of Florida, forming in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 4, 2024, and making landfall a day later in the Big Bend region. Hurricane Debby photos, video of rain, heavy surf ...
August 5, 2024 at 8:44 AM. By Rich McKay. (Reuters) -Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 storm in the Big Bend region of Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday morning and began a slow crawl ...
The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, in September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, [1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which ...
It's called Potential Tropical Cyclone EIGHT, which just means that it could still develop into a tropical system before it makes landfall later today. Hurricane hunters measured winds well north ...