Satellite Hurricane Harvey Texas

It is tied with 2005 s hurricane katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record inflicting 125 billion 2017 usd in damage primarily from catastrophic rainfall triggered flooding in the houston metropolitan area and southeast.

Satellite hurricane harvey texas.

See before and after satellite photos of hurricane harvey above. The after image was taken on aug. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. Hurricane harvey started as a tropical wave off the african coast on sunday august 13th and tracked westward across the atlantic and on august 17th become a tropical storm which moved.

Harvey was forecast to have winds in the eyewall between 115 and 130 mph. Tropical storm harvey rapidly intensified into a category four hurricane in the gulf of mexico in august 2017. This year s atlantic hurricane season is the first season on record in which nine tropical storms formed before august and thirteen formed before september. At the time it was also the first.

30 2017 by digitalglobe s worldview 2 satellite. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response. Satellite images show brookshire texas before hurricane harvey top and after bottom. You can follow him on twitter at fernramirez93.

In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery. However another record occurred on this day three years ago when hurricane harvey became the first category 4 hurricane to make landfall along the coast of texas since carla in 1961. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. 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.

Three extreme wind warnings were ultimately issued for harvey. The eye of major hurricane harvey first made landfall on san jose island and then near the rockport and fulton texas area at around 10 pm cdt. As of 1 00 pm cdt on 8 24 the national hurricane center reported that harvey was about 335 miles southeast of corpus christi texas and packing winds near 85 miles per hour with higher gusts. The hurricane s eye made landfall in rockport texas and this before and after landsat image clearly shows shoreline retreat on barrier islands caused by harvey s storm surge.