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The Hurricane News Center

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Editor's Note: This is the page will contain news reports related to Hurricane activity. Separate pages are available for each storm for tracking maps and technical forecast updates. Hurricane coverage will update as needed but will not include A-O E-mail News Alerts.

See Hurricane Ike's Forecast Page - LINK HERE. 

Local Galveston/Houston Storm Damage Reports Page -- LINK HERE. 

 

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Latest Update

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Update 9-13-8 at 10 am CDT-USA

 

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Urgent Prayer Request

For A-O Readers in Storm's Path

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The Alpha-Omega Report has numerous, loyal and faithful readers living in Texas and along the coastal areas now under a Hurricane Threat. Indeed, one A-O contributing author of Prophecy Studies, Dr. Larry Patrick lives in the Houston area. Dr. Patrick has contributed numerous A-O studies articles in the past and was scheduled to make a guest appearance at this Saturday's A-O Prophecy Chat Room meeting. He still intends to make that appointment if he has electricity and internet access. Other A-O readers live in the affected area also. One reader is Candace. She emailed the editor to report that she was being evacuated further inland in Texas to a friendly church providing shelter. I know that there are other A-O readers in the Texas area that are also impacted by this storm.

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Hurricane Ike has now made landfall with a direct hit on Houston and Galveston as the hurricane eye came directly over Galveston. This may have been a blessing in disguise because it spared Galveston and Galveston Bay from the "dirty part" of the storm, which is always to the right side of a hurricane eye where the winds and storm surge are the most severe. Only now at 10 a.m.  has the last of the eyewall storms moved away from Galveston Island. Local authorities will begin damage assessment and rescue operations.

Hurricane Ike's center of the eye made landfall right over Galveston Island about 2 am Saturday morning as a strong CAT-2 Hurricane with winds clocked at up to 110 mph. Most of Galveston was reportedly submerged with only isolated pockets of high ground not inundated by the storm surge. The storm surge was not quite as great as expected although it did reportedly top the seawall. Had the city experienced the "dirty part" of the storm, the surge would have been signfiicantly greater. The dirty part of the storm ended up making landfall to the north near Beaumont and Port Arthur where the shoreline configuration limited the surge to less than it would have been had it hit Galveston or Galveston Bay.

The Alpha-Omega Report has a separate page for coverage on Hurricane Damage reports and assessments.

This concludes our coverage of Hurricane Ike for this web page.

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Other Tropical Weather News

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Storm Remnants of Josephine

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The remants of Tropical Storm Josephine continue to languish near the Bahamas with indications that the remnants might attempt to reform.

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Other Disturbances

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There is a new tropical wave disturbance off in the eastern Atlantic. The activity does not show any signs of organization in the next day or so.

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Hurricane Safir-Simpson Storm Rating Scale

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Hurricane/Storm Scale Windspeeds

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Toprical Depression = Winds organized but 38 mph or under

Tropical Storm = 39 - 73 mph-

Category 1 = Winds 74 - 95 mph

Category 2 = Winds 96 - 110 mph

Category 3 = Winds 111 - 130 mph

Category 4 = Winds 131 - 155 mph

Category 5 = Winds 155+ mph

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