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Wake Island May Have Suffered Considerable Damage

Typhoon Ioke knocked out Wake Island's weather sensors Thursday as it lashed the island with some of the central Pacific's fiercest winds in more than a decade, the National Weather Service said. All residents of the island, including troops, Defense Department civilian employees and military contractors were evacuated from the U.S. territory early in the week.

Forecasters monitoring the 2.5-square-mile island's wind and temperature gauges from Hawaii said the instruments blew out as the storm approached with winds up to 155 mph and gusts up to 190 mph.

The U.S. Air Force plans to send a plane from Hawaii to assess damage from the air, but hasn't announced when the flight will leave.

Ioke is the first Category 5 hurricane to develop in the central Pacific since record keeping began in the early 1960s, and it is the most powerful storm to pass through the region since hurricanes Emilia and Gilma, both in July 1994.

Wake Island Damage Assessment

  • http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123027362
  • http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123026374
  • http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123026369
  • http://www.pacaf.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123027163

    Read about HURRICANE HISTORY from Galveston(1900) to Wilma (2005), nearly three dozen hurricanes described in detail at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml.

    The Retirement of Hurricane Names from www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/grounders/retirednames.html

    Saffir-Simpson Scale
    • Tropical Storm - winds 39-73 mph (34-63 kt)
    • Category 1 - winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt)
    • Category 2 - winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt)
    • Category 3 - winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt)
    • Category 4 - winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt)
    • Category 5 - winds 156 mph and up (135+ kt)


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