Satellite Hurricane Harvey Category

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.

Satellite hurricane harvey category.

Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites. Harvey underwent rapid intensification and quickly became a category 3 hurricane on friday at 2 pm 120 mph sustained winds and then a category 4 hurricane 130 mph sustained winds early friday evening. 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. As harvey slowly approached the coast the national weather service in corpus christi issued a rare extreme wind warning.

Maximum sustained winds in harvey s eyewall were 130 mph at that time making it a category 4. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. 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 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.

The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 august while it approached the middle texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricaneby 0000 utc 26 august. The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. Max wind speed 130mph. Satellite images and tracking maps of category 4 major hurricane harvey 2017 august 16 september 2.

Five hours after hurricane harvey made landfall in texas around 10 p m. Geocolor imagery displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. Harvey s maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph making it a category 4 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions.

381 kb animation of harvey approaching the texas coast gif 720 480. An infrared satellite image of hurricane harvey a category 2 hurricane.