Hurricane Ike Landfall Time Lapse

Time Lapse Doppler Radar imagery of Hurricane Ike which made U.S landfall as a category 2 storm near Galveston, Texas on September 13th, 2008 at 2:10am CDT.

Hurricane Ike was the third-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States. It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

A full article about the hurricane can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike

State and county outlines as well as labels of affected major cities are clearly visible in full resolution video.

Imagery is created using archived NOAA/NEXRAD radar data.