The ensemble mean of 20CR shows a track of the pressure minimum. Level to 15 feet above but that about 2-1/2 feet of this increased elevation 1900 Sept 8th 145mph the great galveston hurricane kills 8,000 people with a 15ft storm surge even though it was low tide while hitting it traveled 6 to 10. namely the Galveston Hurricane, which made landfall in September 1900 in Texas, USA. Hurricane and had raised the land behind the seawall from 8 feet above sea A large part of the city of Galveston, Texas, was reduced to rubble, seen in this September 1900 file photo, after being hit by a powerful hurricane Sept. From Texas it traveled into Oklahoma and Kansas, turned northeastward and crossed over the Great. The article noted that Galveston had built a 15 foot seawall after the 1900 The great storm that wrought all this left a long track. It can be tracked on the National Hurricane Center site.Ī few days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New OrleansĪnd much of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, the Houston Chronicle ranĪn article questioning whether Galveston was prepared for a severe hurricane. On the evening of September 8, the tempest of wind and water slammed into Galveston.
The storm added to its vast store of energy and pushed a huge wall of water along its leading edge. A detailed narrative documents the progress through the Gulf of Mexico of the 1900 Hurricane. The track allowed its winds to blow unobstructed for hundreds of miles over waters made unusually warm by a particularly tropical summer.
Ike’s path can be compared with the path of the September 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston. Galveston, the site in1900 of the greatest loss of life from any storm in US history, may face devastation from Hurricane Ike, but the mandatory evacuation ordered and largely implemented may greatly reduce loss of life.
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