Scoop Images: Hurricane Ivan Makes Landfall

Thursday, 16 September 2004, 2:28 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Local Weather Radar Map 2.15pm 16 September NZT
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The eye of Hurricane Ivan is a few hours away from making landfall on the US southern coast. Ground Zero appears to be Mobile, Alabama, near to the Alabama Mississippi border. Already hurricane force winds are battering a wide area of the coast and hurricane generated rainfall is falling from New Orleans (Louisiana) to Tallahassee (Florida).

Already Ivan has claimed one US fatality (to add to an estimated 68 in the Carribean) via a tornado which span off from the eastern flank of the cloud mass. New Orleans meanwhile is expected to avoid the brunt of the Hurricane bringing a great deal of relief to the city.

Regional Weather Radar Map 2.15pm 16 September NZT
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For live breaking news on the hurricane see…
- National Hurricane Center
- NOLA.Com Hurricane Center – New Orleans
- AL.Com Storm Central – Alabama
- PostHerald.Com – Birmingham Alabama
- Google News – Hurricane Ivan
- Yahoo Full Coverage - Tropical Storms and Hurricanes

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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