Satellite Hurricane Harvey Category

As harvey slowly approached the coast the national weather service in corpus christi issued a rare extreme wind warning.

Satellite hurricane harvey category.

Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. As a category 4 storm it was downgraded to a category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph a decrease. Satellite images and tracking maps of category 4 major hurricane harvey 2017 august 16 september 2. 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.

Maximum sustained winds in harvey s eyewall were 130 mph at that time making it a category 4. 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. 35988351183 jpg 1 024 1 024. Harvey s maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph making it a category 4 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale.

Geocolor imagery displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions. An infrared satellite image of hurricane harvey a category 2 hurricane. Max wind speed 130mph.

Harvey was the nation s first major category 3 or stronger hurricane landfall since hurricane wilma. 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. 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. 381 kb animation of harvey approaching the texas coast gif 720 480.

The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. 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.