Hurricane Ike Live Thread Part II

NOAA/NHC ^ | 10 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Texas began issuing mandatory and voluntary evacuations as Hurricane Ike continued to strengthen and slowly moved toward an uncertain landfall destination in the western Gulf of Mexico. Texas Governor Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration in advance of the storm. Louisiana Governor Jindal released several hundred buses to Texas for evacuation assistance.

Reports from Cuba indicate widespread damage from Hurricane Ike, which raked the length of the island nation. The U.S. State Department again offered Cuba humanitarian assistance after a previous offer was declined by the Cuban government.

The stock market Wednesday rose as investors bought oil stocks and and oill futures fell.

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Discussion Updated every 6 hours

Buoy data: Western Gulf of Mexico

Forecast Models

Houston/Galveston Long Range Radar
Corpus Christi Long Range Radar
Brownsville Long Range Radar Lake Charles Long Range Radar

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

ABC 13 News Houston
FOX News Houston
KRIS-TV Corpus Christi
KZTV Corpus Christi

Brazoria County Emergency Management
Galveston County Emergency Management
Chambers Country Emergency Management
Liberty County Emergency Management

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

Previous Threads:
Hurricane Ike Live Thread I
TS Hanna, Hurricane Ike & TS Josephine [Other than that, the tropics are calm]
Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine, TD Gustav (Other than that, the tropics are calm)

[TornadoAlley3]

great to hear from you, be careful of all of that stacked up roadside debris from Gustav. Continued prayers sent.

[Rightly Biased]

Now those are some Huge Avacados
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Flying out to Florida this morning

Yall Stay safe

I will check-in in 2 weeks when I get back

Thanks for your diligence NN

Gods Speed to all in Ikes Path <><

[fatima]

Take care Rightly Biased.

[SeaHawkFan]

A natural sponge is the best thing going when you want to wash up in a rustic area. They hold lots of water for rinsing.
A Chamois also works well for washing and drying.

[Guenevere]

Sure hope you're not reading my post this morning....

..because you're too busy evacuating!!...get outta there!!

And God bless!

[Guenevere]

God speed and safe returns, Dog Gone!

[Enosh]

I'm wrapping my mind around that footage, as I know the area well. Pirate's Beach and the West End in general is a place where you can drive your car right down to the water and park on the sand.

With the waves already washing away foot bridges from the dunes, the water is already over the top of the cars, if any were there. There is no beach.

Yow.

[AFPhys]

JPSB

GO.

The wind is not the thing to look at here. The table of “typical storm surge from Cat.2, etc” is not the thing to look at.

The critical item in this storm that makes it unusual is the SIZE and central PRESSURE - water is getting sucked up in a huge area. The storm surge is going to be much higher than typical, as they’ve reported overe and over.

Anyone under 20 feet ASL is going to be swamped. The waves driven in addition to that are going to pummel structures that are swamped.

I hope you’re gone. arkady was right - let him be the idiot you can get a six pack from him or something later on.

[AFPhys]

There is a whole lot around Galveston Bay that will not be there on Sunday.

[WestCoastGal]

Al Roker on the Today show reports the Galveston seawall is 7’..........I’m sure it’s 17’ So he says the surge will overtop the wall by 13’. They should check their sources.........but of course they’ve had everyone busy on Sarah’s interview trying to find fault with it.

[tiredoflaundry]

Just wanted to send my prayers to all who are in he path of this storm.

[TornadoAlley3]

Listening to Internet BR radio live right now...numerous reports of flooding from IKE, power outages, school closures, sounds like BR was not prepared for this on the heels of Gustav. lots of high water and traffic lights going out in areas that had gotten power back after Gus. Schools calling in saying they are closing, no power.

[NautiNurse]

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