Hurricane Ike Live Thread III

NOAA/NHC ^ | 12 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Large and dangerous Hurricane Ike approaching the Upper Texas coast. Mandatory evacuations began in earnest Thursday as an estimated one million coastal residents headed inland. There were widespread reports of gas stations running out of fuel.

The National Weather Service posted dire storm surge predictions of 20-25 ft storm surge along the coast and bay heads. Hurricane warnings covered a 400 mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico.

Wholesale gasoline prices spiked 30 percent Thursday, or nearly $1 a gallon, out of fear of what Ike might do.

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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

KHOU Houston
ABC 13 News Houston
FOX News Houston

KPLC Lake Charles
KFDM 6 Beaumont/Port Arthur
KKBMT 12 Beaumont
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 II
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)

[thesearethetimes...]

Oh! Now tornadoes really give me the willies! I will take our hurricanes, that do not drop out of the sky unannounced :o

Tatt

[penelopesire]

Gov. Perry predicting now that this could be a 100 BILLION dollar storm!

[tcrlaf]

You may be right...
Sabine PAss guage is over 11ft. now...

[fatima]

He looks really good for the conditions .He is holding it together.I don’t agree with him all the time but I give him credit.

[Fundamentally Fair]

I clearly remember him doing it in Lebanon.

It might be time for a fact check.

[Eaker]

Well at least about the dogs, who don't have any say in the matter.

The six of them didn't want to be crammed in a car, plus we had no where to go.

[SeaHawkFan]

Now, now...let’s not make fun of small town mayors.

Sarah Palin wasn't a lacky for the local good old boys

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hmmmm - ok - thanks - prayers!

[blam]

"But that wobble might just have prevented a worst-case scenario for Galveston Bay. Charlie in 2004 wobbled ten miles at landfall and it made all the difference in the world as to who got nailed and who missed the worst of the storm. "

We've noted that a number of these storms have taken a turn to the right/east at or just before land fall...maybe this one is too?

[Palladin]

I guess that’s not a toupee on his head. It has stayed on all day through wind, rain, and a good dunking!

[thesearethetimes...]

What a life ; } So grateful they share it with us.

Tatt

[Mozie]

He did. He was with the 101st in Iraq in March of ‘03. His “artwork” in the sand revealed the position of the 101 relative to Baghdad.Because of his actions he was expelled from Iraq and escorted to the Kuwaiti border.

[AFPhys]

Watching these guages is kind of like watching paint dry...

[WSGilcrest]

To bad chuck norris isn’t there to hold the wind and water back!

[TheMom]

We have plenty of Houston between us and Galveston.

It has started sprinkling here.

[humblegunner]

I’m not allowed to flee.

[tcrlaf]

KHOU-

People stuck on Rooftops in Crystal Beach (Bbolivar Peninsula). No hope of rescue anytime soon.

Freeport “Completely under Water”...

[Patas]

Wonder if Geraldo is packing heat, like in Afghanistan.

[mware]

geraldo is holding on to a tree

[mastexas]

So you are in Houston.

Yep

Born here - a long time ago ;)