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Hurricane Ivan

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Sep 13, 2004
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2004-09-12 00:00:00
September 12, 2004

The SeaWiFS sensor aboard the OrbView-2 satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Ivan on September 12, 2004 at 18:22 UTC (2:22 PM EDT). At the time this image was taken, Ivan was lashing out at the Cayman Islands with maximum sustained winds of 240 km/hr (150 mph) and a storm surge as high as 25 feet. Ivan was moving towards the west-northwest at 17 km/hr (10 mph) while a turn towards the northwest wa expected within the next 24 hours.

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

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