Ivan, classified as a hurricane made landfall on September 24, 2004. NASA image courtesy the QuikSCAT team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Hurricane Ivan (2004) Storm Track & Details. Specifically, these wind data are helping meteorologists to more accurately identify the extent of gale-force winds associated with a storm, while supplying inputs to numerical models that provide advanced warning of high waves and flooding. Data from the SeaWinds scatterometer is augmenting traditional satellite images of clouds by providing direct measurements of surface winds to compare with the observed cloud patterns in an effort to better determine a hurricane’s location, direction, structure, and strength. In recent years, the ability to detect and track severe storms has been dramatically enhanced by the advent of weather satellites. QuikScat carries the SeaWinds scatterometer, a specialized microwave radar that measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions over the Earth’s oceans. NASA’s Quick Scatterometer ( QuikSCAT) spacecraft was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on June 19, 1999. It became a tropical depression again on September 22 to the southeast of Louisiana, and Ivan reached winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) before weakening and moving. For more information, please visit the National Hurricane Center. The storm collapsed part of the Interstate 10 Escambia Bay Bridge and damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in Baldwin, Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. 16 as a 120-mile-per-hour Category 3 hurricane, driving a storm surge of 15 feet that swamped towns along the coast. The storm is forecast to move northwest over Jamaica and Cuba, then on to Florida. Hurricane Ivan struck the western Florida Panhandle Sept. Ivan strengthened after plowing over Grenada on Tuesday, September 7. The black barbs indicate wind speed and direction at QuikSCAT’s nominal 25 km resolution white barbs indicate areas of heavy rain.
Purple in the center of the storm shows the highest wind speeds, and green fringes around the outside of the storm show the lowest wind speeds. Ivan intensified as it moved west until it reached hurricane strength on. The result was this multi-colored image of the storm. Ivan developed off the west coast of Africa and meteorologists started tracking. It was also the strongest hurricane on record that far south east of the Lesser Antilles. Early on September 9, 2004, the SeaWinds scatterometer aboard NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite saw through Ivan’s swirling clouds to measure wind speed 10 meters above the ocean surface. StewartNational Hurricane Center16 December 2004(updated ) Ivan was a classical, long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 strength three times on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS). With wind speeds topping 260 kilometers per hour (160 mph), Hurricane Ivan is roaring through the Caribbean as a deadly Category 5 storm.
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