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Aug 24, 2017 · This video, based on composite satellite imagery, shows the storm’s path through the Gulf of Mexico from August 23 to Thursday.
Aug 28, 2017 · Pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters caused by Hurricane Harvey inundated the city of Houston, a metropolitan area of 6.6 million. The storm made landfall late Friday as a Category 4...
Jul 9, 2018 · Hurricane Harvey. The U.S. Geological Survey has deployed storm-tide sensors, forecast what coastal change to expect, and is ready to measure the extent of flooding likely to result from this powerful storm, Hurricane Harvey.
The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 August while it approached the middle Texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricane by 0000 UTC 26 August. Harvey’s center made landfall on the northern end of San Jose Island about 5 n mi east of Rockport, Texas at 0300 UTC that day.
Hurricane Harvey is the first hurricane to hit the Texas coast since 2008 when Hurricane Ike came through the Houston area and the first major (category 3 or better) hurricane to hit Texas since Bret in 1999 .
Aug 27, 2017 · Three key elements combined to create such a rain-laden storm as Harvey: the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, strong hurricane winds and a weak late-summer jetstream.
Aug 26, 2017 · Seven million Texans, flood-prone land and oil refineries stand in Hurricane Harvey’s path. One of the fastest-growing areas in the United States could see as much as two feet of...
Sep 1, 2017 · Over 150,000 properties in Texas have been affected by Hurricane Harvey, based on preliminary estimates by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Sep 2, 2017 · Learn about Harvey's development from a tropical wave to Category 4 hurricane and eventual dissipation over the course of 19 days.
Feb 10, 2024 · Hurricane Harvey, rated category 4, is tied with Hurricane Katrina (2005) as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, and the costliest natural disaster recorded in Texas at the time. 107 fatalities occurred, directly and indirectly.
