Hurricane Ike Live Thread

NOAA/NHC ^ | 7 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Ike is the fifth tropical cyclone of the 2008 hurricane season to threaten U.S. Gulf Coast states.

Reports from Turks & Caicos Islands describe 80 per cent of homes damaged or destroyed. On Sunday, Hurricane Ike's position just north of Hispanola was hampering relief efforts for devastation incurred by Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Fay. The death toll in Haiti from Gustav reached 200 people.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist held a press conference Sunday morning shortly after a Hurricane Watch was issued for the Florida Keys.

Public Advisory Updated every 3 hours

Discussion Updated every 6 hours

Buoy data:

Florida & Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Western Gulf of Mexico

West Caribbean

Forecast Models

South FL Radar Loop
FL Keys Radar Loop
Cuba Radar Warning: site gets overloaded
FL Long Range Radar Image

Ike
Single Image		Image Loop
Lat/Lon	No Lat/Lon	Short	Long
Visible	Visible	Visible	Visible
Shortwave	Shortwave	Shortwave	Shortwave
Water Vapor	Water Vapor	Water Vapor	Water Vapor
Infrared Channel 4 Enhancements
None	None	None	None
AVN	AVN	AVN	AVN
Dvorak	Dvorak	Dvorak	Dvorak
JSL	JSL	JSL	JSL
RGB	RGB	RGB	RGB
Funktop	Funktop	Funktop	Funktop
Rainbow	Rainbow	Rainbow	Rainbow

Additional Resources:

Navy Tropical Cyclone
Storm Pulse Very cool site--scroll down for Ike

KeyNews.com Key West News
Miami Herald
NOLA.com
KPLC-tv Lake Charles News
WEAR-tv Pensacola FL
TBO.com Tampa Bay Online
KHOU Houston
WKRG-tv Mobile-Pensacola

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Are you in Corpus ?...

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Ike continues to pound Cuba...Isolated tornadoes and
water spouts are possible over FL Keys and extreme So. FL today.

Winds 80 mph, 965 mb, moving W at 13 mph.

Hurricane force winds extend 35 miles from the center.
Tropical storm force winds extend outward 195 miles.

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[PeteB570]

Gas

A thing to remember. Most cars run on gas. Keep your tanks as full as you can. Top off when bad weather threatens.

Our truck has a 27 gal tank, 13 in the Mazda, 12 in the Honda. The Focus gets the best mpg.

A couple of 5 gal jugs will get you going if the power goes out. The hours after the storm moves will tell you how long the power might be out. You can then siphon gas out of the vehicles you're not using to keep the generator going.

Try not to store gas in the generator. It goes bad plus gums up the carburetor. If you filled it for Hurricane season siphon it out and run the last few minutes of gas out. Makes it a lot easier come ice season ( for us).

Tale a count of the watts you want to run. I've got a 5 kw and it will power the frig, a window A/C or oil heater, entertainment center, a couple of lights and the computer center with a few watts extra

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Thanx for the ping NN - and all you do.

[NautiNurse]

Found this interesting:

Fidel Castro, 82 and convalescing at a secret location,
issued one of his periodic "reflections," praising Cuba's
civil defense efforts and accusing the US government of
reveling in Cuba's sorrows from Ike and the storms that
preceded it, Gustav and Hanna. Boston.com

The extreme paranoia of communist dictators (dead or alive) knows no bounds.

[NautiNurse]

Ike with Pinpoint Eye

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Just because they are paranoid, doesn’t mean we’re NOT out to get them :)

[Rightly Biased]

He keeps moving south

Thanks for the morning ping NN

Hope you rested well.

[SouthTexas]

I would probably run from a moose, too!

Thanks, I needed that and moreso this morning than last night. :)

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/hurricanes_as_seen_from_orbit.html

cool pics, apologies if already posted.

[Malichi]

I've got a dumb question. The 8am EDT runs of HWRF and UKMET have IKE turning north on what looks like Thursday. My question: What accounts for this northern turn and could it happen before Thursday?

I understand all of the other models are pretty much in agreement of a South Texas landfall but I was just wondering why these two show such a different track.

TAW

[girlscout]

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[jsh3180]

Good Morning NN and all.....what a night and it’s still blowing pretty good, looks like we’ll have this all day. Some gusts over CAT1 strength last night in the first outer band that hit us. Posted about it here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2076695/posts?page=520#520

This is a remarkably dry storm but the winds have been above what I thought we’d get. Lots of palm fronds and tree limbs down outside. Went out 3 times during the night to check on the boats, hard time getting any sleep. Tide is up about 18” above normal and I think it’s low tide right now.

No big deal, just another yard mess to clean.

[MeekOneGOP]

** It looks like I may be directly in the path of this one!! **

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The latest from The Dallas Mourning Spews:

Track Hurricane Ike

[kinghorse]

My spideyweight sense is tingling. Bull redfish will be rolling in on every high tide along upper Texas coast passes the next few days.

/we use something called spider weights to keep our baits down in the mad pass current. They are typically 8 oz weights with long copper spider legs that come out and are bent halfway at 45 to grapple the sand. It looks like a 4 legged spider.

[NautiNurse]

Thanks much for checking in and providing your local update. We’re thinking about you down in the Keys. Beware of twisters today.

[CindyDawg]

HMM. He going to your place or mine? I think you are definately going to be on the windy side though.

[NautiNurse]

The key to looking at models is to study the trends, rather than focusing on the outliers. The trend has been more to the W since yesterday, when the GFS was the Eastern outlier (which called for a trough to pull the storm N). In turn, the GFS model pulled the GFDL and HWRF that direction because they use the GFS for boundaries.

To repeat...follow the trends with models...do not focus on the outliers.

[Malichi]

Thanks.

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Ike from the ISS via YouTube.