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Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈɡʊstɑːv /) was the second most destructive hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.
Hurricane Gustav was the only major hurricane that formed during the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season. [1] Developing out of a tropical wave on August 24, Gustav tracked westward across the Atlantic Ocean, steadily intensifying. The storm reached hurricane-status on August 26 and reached its initial peak intensity as a strong Category 2 hurricane ...
As Gustav moved beyond Jamaica, it rapidly intensified into a Category 4 Hurricane before striking Cuba on August 30th. Gustav slowly weakened as it moved into the Gulf of Mexico and toward the northern Gulf Coast. Hurricane Gustav made landfall in southeast Louisiana on September 1st in 2008.
Gustav rapidly intensified overnight to a strong Category Two Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph early Saturday morning, August 30th. Gustav reached major hurricane status with winds of 120 mph (Category Three) later in the morning as it approached the Isle of Youth in western Cuba.
Hurricane Gustav caused a total of at least $6.61 billion (2008 USD) in damage and 153 lives were lost. In Haiti, 77 people were killed and 10,250 houses were damaged or destroyed by Gustav’s winds and the 254 mm+ (10 in+) of rain that fell.
With excellent outflow and high oceanic heat content of the water ahead, Gustav began to strengthen overnight, and quite rapidly on August 30th, making landfall across Western Cuba as a 150 mph category four hurricane. Click here to see the entire track of Gustav.
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav spanned eleven days, from August 25 to September 4, 2008. The tropical disturbance which eventually spawned Hurricane Gustav gathered on August 16, southwest of the Cape Verde islands, but was slow to develop as it trekked west across the Atlantic.
On Sept. 1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, LA. Prior to this the hurricane had made landfalls in Haiti, Jamaica, the Caymans, and Cuba, leaving a trail of destruction throughout the Greater Antilles. This rampage left over $6.5 billion in damage and 153 dead.
On September 1, 2008, Hurricane Gustav devastated Baton Rouge. According to the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP), more than 800 people were impacted...
On August 30, 2008 near the west end of Cuba, Hurricane Gustav was upgraded to a category 3 hurricane with 195 km per hour winds. Once the hurricane came towards the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane had gradually weakened because of the increase of wind and dry air.