Where did hurricane ike hit?

More than one million people evacuated in advance of Hurricane Ike, but more than 100,000 people did not. At 8:19 pm September 11, the National Weather Service in Houston/Galveston, Texas issued a strongly worded bulletin, regarding storm surge along the shoreline of Galveston Bay. read more

Now that Hurricane Harvey has made landfall in Southeast Texas, it’s a good idea to look at the lessons of the last hurricane to hit the area, Hurricane Ike. After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean and Cuba, the storm made landfall in Texas on September 12, 2008 at 2:10 a.m. CDT. read more

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. read more