Satellite Hurricane Harvey Texas

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 texas.

Three extreme wind warnings were ultimately issued for harvey. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. It made landfall in texas and dumped record setting amounts of rain for six days leading to devastating floods. 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.

Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response. 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. Harvey was forecast to have winds in the eyewall between 115 and 130 mph. Landsat 8 captured the before image august 19 2017 and landsat 7 acquired the after image on september 12 with changes to the coastline still visible 18 days after.

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. See before and after satellite photos of hurricane harvey above. 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.

You can follow him on twitter at fernramirez93. Tropical storm harvey rapidly intensified into a category four hurricane in the gulf of mexico in august 2017. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. 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.

30 2017 by digitalglobe s worldview 2 satellite. At the time it was also the first. Satellite images show brookshire texas before hurricane harvey top and after bottom. In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.