Satellite View Of Hurricane Ike

Satellite images and tracking maps of category 4 major hurricane ike 2008 september 1 15.

Satellite view of hurricane ike. The center of the hurricane was near 23 8 degrees north latitude and 85 3 degrees west longitude moving 300. Hurricane ike aɪ k was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the greater antilles and northern america in september 2008 wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture particularly in cuba and texas ike took a similar track to the 1900 galveston hurricane the ninth tropical storm fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 atlantic hurricane season. Time lapse radar of hurricane ike as it passes through galveston and houston texas. Max wind speed 145mph.

This video was create. Unless otherwise noted the images linked from this page are located on servers at the satellite products and services division spsd of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis. Making landfall over galveston at 2 10 a m. View of hurricane ike from space station.

2008 hurricane ike was still a category 4 storm on the morning of sept. Hurricane ike also had a long term impact on the u s. Trmm tropical rainfall measuring mission spacecraft observed this view of hurricane ike on september 10 2008 at 1745 utc. 4 when this photo was taken from the international space station s vantage point of 220 miles above the earth.

36 hours of radar were compressed into 29 seconds. Please direct all questions and comments regarding goes e goes 16 images to. Cdt on september 13 2008 category 2 hurricane ike caused extensive damage in texas with sustained winds of. Satellite iss images of hurricane ike.

2008 this picture of hurricane ike from earlier today was downlinked by the crew of the international space station flying 220 statute miles above earth. The depression quickly strengthened into a tropical storm later that afternoon. On the morning of september 1st a tropical depression formed approximately 1750 miles east of puerto rico. Synopsis ike evolved from a tropical disturbance that moved off the west coast of africa at the end of august.

Hurricane ike sprawls over much of the gulf of mexico in this photo like image taken by the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer on nasa s terra satellite at 12 25 p m. Moving west northwest ike strengthened into a hurricane on the afternoon of september 3rd and. The storm was a category 2. The effects of hurricane ike in texas were crippling and long lasting.