Ike Over Trinity Bay

The 35 mile wide eye of Hurricane Ike is over Trinity and Galveston Bays early on this Saturday morning.

The hurricane center made landfall at 2:10 p.m. at Galveston. Top winds were 110 mph, making it a high end Category Two hurricane.

The eye is beginning to cross I-10 just east of the city of Houston. The city will remain in the western eyewall.

Inland Tropical Storm and Hurricane warnings continue up through western Louisiana and into Northeast Texas.

Tornaoes are posisble today over a wide area, including southern Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Southeast Oklahoma and into Missouri. This will spread as far north as Cleveland OH on Sunday.

KLTV reports 8,67 inches of rain in Houston at the Weatherbug station at Air Liquide…rainfall rate was 7.08 inches per hour. Four to six inches of rain will fall in the next 24 hours up into southern Missouri.

Ten foot storm surge at Port at Lake Charles. Rita produced an 11.5 foot surge.

Couple of interesting videos…
1. Weather Channel video at Clear Lake showing the arrival of the eye. It went from near whiteout conditions with blinding rain, winds to near hurricane force and waves lapping out of the bay to near calm in about 15 seconds.
2. A streaker caught in TWC footage from Beaumont.

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