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Event Details
| Event | Tropical Storm |
| State | LOUISIANA |
| County/Area | ST. CHARLES |
| WFO | LIX |
| Begin Date | 09/11/2008 05:00:00 CST-6 |
| End Date | 09/13/2008 03:00:00 CST-6 |
| Deaths Direct/Indirect | 0/0 (fatality details below, when available...) |
| Injuries Direct/Indirect | 0/0 |
| Property Damage | 0.00K |
| Crop Damage | 0.00K |
| Episode Narrative | Hurricane Ike emerged into the southeast Gulf of Mexico as a category 1 hurricane on September 9th after earlier being a major hurricane as it moved across the Caribbean. Ike gradually intensified and developed an unusually large wind field as it tracked northwest across the Gulf over the next three days. Ike made landfall as a category 2 hurricane during the early morning hours on September 13th along the northern end of Galveston Island, Texas. Mainly tropical storm force wind gusts associated with Ike affected southeast Louisiana although sustained tropical storm winds were measured near the coast. The main effect of Ike on southeast Louisiana was the storm surge which inundated sections of the coast, especially Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish. A storm surge ranging from 4 to nearly 8 feet above normal along the southeast Louisiana coast with a storm surge around 5 feet above normal in Lake Pontchartrain. The unusually high storm surge generated by the distant hurricane affected many low-lying coastal areas as well as areas around Lake Pontchartrain, but federal levees protected most of the high density population areas of greater New Orleans. Some locally built levees were breached or overtopped, most notably in southern Terrebonne Parish where 2,500 homes out of the 15,000 homes in the affected area were flooded. In southern Jefferson Parish from Lafitte and Crown Point to Grand Isle, approximately 2,500 structures were flooded. Considerable storm surge flooding was noted around Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas. Around 200 structures were flooded in St Tammany Parish from Slidell to Mandeville and Madisonville. The storm surge flooding took several weeks to fully drain from many low lying areas of southeast Louisiana. Louisiana Economic Development office estimated that Ike caused insured and uninsured property damage of at least $3.5 billion in the state of Louisiana. The highest wind gust recorded in southeast Louisiana was 69 mph at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport ASOS site during a squall while the highest sustained wind of 55 mph was recorded at the Pilot's Station East CMAN site near Southwest Pass; however, due to the failure of equipment at some observation sites during the storm higher winds may have occurred. The minimum sea level pressure measured in southeast Louisiana was 1002.5 millibars at LUMCON facility near Dulac. Rainfall across the area was mainly less than one and a half inches. |
| Event Narrative |
All events for this episode:
| Location | County/Zone | St. | Date | Time | T.Z. | Type | Mag | Dth | Inj | PrD | CrD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals: | 0 | 0 | 194.331M | 0.00K | |||||||
| IBERVILLE (ZONE) | IBERVILLE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 2.00K | 0.00K | |
| WEST BATON ROUGE (ZONE) | WEST BATON ROUGE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| UPPER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | UPPER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 500.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | LOWER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ORLEANS (ZONE) | ORLEANS (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 100.00K | 0.00K | |
| TANGIPAHOA (ZONE) | TANGIPAHOA (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST (ZONE) | ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. CHARLES (ZONE) | ST. CHARLES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | LOWER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| EAST BATON ROUGE (ZONE) | EAST BATON ROUGE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 550.00K | 0.00K | |
| UPPER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | UPPER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| UPPER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | UPPER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. JAMES (ZONE) | ST. JAMES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 25.00K | 0.00K | |
| ASSUMPTION (ZONE) | ASSUMPTION (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 260.00K | 0.00K | |
| UPPER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | UPPER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | LOWER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ASCENSION (ZONE) | ASCENSION (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 24.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | LOWER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | LOWER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. TAMMANY (ZONE) | ST. TAMMANY (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LIVINGSTON (ZONE) | LIVINGSTON (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 370.00K | 0.00K | |
| UPPER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | UPPER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 05:00 | CST-6 | Tropical Storm | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. CHARLES (ZONE) | ST. CHARLES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ORLEANS (ZONE) | ORLEANS (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | LOWER ST. BERNARD (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | LOWER PLAQUEMINES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| TANGIPAHOA (ZONE) | TANGIPAHOA (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LIVINGSTON (ZONE) | LIVINGSTON (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ST. TAMMANY (ZONE) | ST. TAMMANY (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 5.000M | 0.00K | |
| LOWER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | LOWER JEFFERSON (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 87.500M | 0.00K | |
| ST. JAMES (ZONE) | ST. JAMES (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | LOWER LAFOURCHE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| ASCENSION (ZONE) | ASCENSION (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| LOWER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | LOWER TERREBONNE (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 100.000M | 0.00K | |
| ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST (ZONE) | ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST (ZONE) | LA | 09/11/2008 | 12:00 | CST-6 | Storm Surge/Tide | 0 | 0 | 0.00K | 0.00K | |
| Totals: | 0 | 0 | 194.331M | 0.00K |
