5 Themes of Hurricane Ike
Tracking Ike’s Path
• Using your Hurricane Tracking chart, track Ike’s path by plotting each
Latitude and Longitude location.
• Label Ike’s locations using the hurricane symbol =
• Draw Ike’s path with a colored marker.
Ike’s Path
1. Sept. 9, 2008 (23N, 83W)
2. Sept. 11, 2008 (26N, 90W)
3. Sept. 13, 2008 (29N, 95W)
4. Sept. 13, 2008 (33N, 95W)
Hurricane
5. Sept. 14, 2008 (36N, 93W)
Ike as a H4
• Ike's Path Ike is Born!
Sept. 10, 2008
Hurricane Ike taken from the
International Space Station
Ike’s Impact on Texas
• Storm Surge Takes
over physical
geography of shallow
coastlines
(Galveston)
Surfside Beach Bridge
Storm Surge in Galveston
(Before Ike hit the Coast)
Hurricane Categories Sea Brook, Texas
H1 = Wind speeds from 74-95 mph (SE Houston)
H2 = Wind speeds from 96-111 mph
Ike was a H2 when it
H3 = Wind speeds from 111-130 mph
hit Galveston/Houston
H4 = Wind speeds from 131- 155 mph
H5 = Wind speeds over 155 mph
Downtown Houston
5 Themes of Hurricane Ike
Regions Places Location Movement HEI
What large areas What places were Where did Ike hit? How did you get How were
did Ike go effected by Ike’s information about Ike people
through? destruction? before/during/after the prepared?
storm? What
happened to
the area
around you?
How did Ike
effect the
people in its
path?
What Did Ike Teach Us?
• Answer the following questions on your
own paper…
• 1. How did you prepare for Hurricane Ike?
• 2. How did Hurricane Ike affect your own
life?
• 3. How does our physical geography
impact our outcome when a natural
disaster hit?