Ivan departs. At last.
The National Hurricane Center this morning issued its final advisory on Ivan. The storm was born Sept. 2 as a tropical depression with 30 mph winds, 555 miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. It was announced by the NHC in a public advisory at 5 p.m. that afternoon. It became a hurricane Sept. 5 and a Category 4 storm later the same day. After crashing through the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast, the storm weakened again to TD status. The NHC stopped issuing advisories for five days. But after Ivan circled back and reformed in the Gulf Sept. 22, new advisories were issued. In all, the NHC issued 116 Ivan advisories over 21.5 days. The last came out today at 4 a.m. That's more than three weeks on the weather radar. Don't know if that's a record, but it was sure way too much of Ivan for all concerned. To see the Ivan archive, click here.


