Incident Details

Name - Hurricane Gustav
Date - 25-Aug-2008
Location - Gulf of Mexico
Countries - Haiti, United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba

At 1500 UTC on August 25, 2008, a tropical wave which had previously produced rain and squalls in the Lesser Antilles, developed well defined curved bands and briefly exhibited an upper-level eye feature. The National Hurricane Center designated it Tropical Depression Seven and dispatched a hurricane hunter aircraft to further investigate the system. At the time the system had a well-defined outflow in all but the southeast quadrant, and data from the hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed that the tropical depression had strengthened into a tropical storm, which was promptly designated Tropical Storm Gustav. A brief period of disorganization[5] proved to be temporary as a well-defined eyewall formed that same night. In the early hours of August 26, as the storm approached Haiti's southwestern peninsula,[7] another hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed what forecasters already suspected—that Gustav had strengthened into a hurricane with winds topping 80 mph (130 km/h). Before reaching Haiti its satellite presentation continued to improve, a central dense overcast became more prominent, and the minimum central pressure fell. Hurricane Gustav re-gained a pronounced eye as it made landfall on Haiti, near the town of Jacmel. As the hurricane moved over Haiti's mountainous terrain its circulation was disrupted[11] and it lost a little strength. Although downgraded to a tropical storm, the system still had a pronounced eye in its mid- and upper-level structures. Its outflow improved throughout the night of August 26 and the system was not very disrupted when it moved back over water into the Gulf of Gonâve.
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