Hurricane Ike Weather Information

Note that this page will not be maintained after 9:00 p.m. CDT, Saturday. September 13, 2008 Edition.

This page contains the weather information that was actively maintained and updated while Ike was an active weather system in Texas. As of 9:00 p.m. Saturday night, September 13, 2008, Ike has moved out of Texas.

This page will be kept to archive the information that was provided while Ike was active in Texas. The images and maps are no longer updated by the links, but the sources are still active.

National Weather Service Enhanced Radar Mosaic as of
5:58 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 13, 2008.

The radar mosaic shown above is hyperlinked to its sources.
To see the most current version of the mosaic,
simply click on the image.

From Wikipedia

Hurricane Ike is the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It is also a Cape Verde-type hurricane, as it started as a tropical disturbance off the coast of Africa near the end of August, then tracked south of Cape Verde and slowly developed. On September 1, it became a tropical storm west of the Cape Verde islands. By the early morning hours of September 4, Ike was a Category 4 hurricane, hitting its peak of 145 mph (230 km/h) and a pressure of 935 mbar (27.61 inHg). That made it the most intense storm so far in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Ike has been blamed for 80 deaths since its formation.

As of Friday afternoon, September 12, Ike was moving westward in the Gulf of Mexico. It was predicted to make landfall in the U.S. state of Texas somewhere near Galveston Island early on Saturday morning, September 13, as a hurricane, and then to swing north into Arkansas, as a tropical storm, and then northeast into Kentucky, as a tropical depression.

The Track of Hurricane Ike

The Track Of Ike

From the National Hurricane Center

 Click here, to hear the podcast advisory (in streaming MP3 format) from the National Hurricane Center from 12:00 a.m. CDT.

To review the NHC's archive of all issued advisories for Ike, click here.

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Coastal Watches/Warnings & 5-Day Track Forecast
as of 1:00 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 13, 2008.

National Weather Service Radar from Dallas/Ft. Worth
at 6:04 p.m. CDT, Saturday September 13, 2008.

National Weather Service Radar from KGRK - Central Texas
at 6:00 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 13, 2008.

National Weather Service Radar from Houston
at 6:04 a.m. CDT, Saturday, September 13, 2008.

GOES Infared Satellite Image
at 5:15 CDT, Saturday, September 13, 2008.