Satellite Hurricane Harvey Texas

Hurricane harvey continues moves closer to the texas coast in this goes 16 geocolor imagery from august 24 2017.

Satellite hurricane harvey texas.

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. Satellite images show brookshire texas before hurricane harvey top and after bottom. 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. In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.

About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. 30 2017 by digitalglobe s worldview 2 satellite. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response. Tropical storm harvey rapidly intensified into a category four hurricane in the gulf of mexico in august 2017.

Harvey was forecast to have winds in the eyewall between 115 and 130 mph. At the time it was also the first. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. The after image was taken on aug.

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. 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. 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. It made landfall in texas and dumped record setting amounts of rain for six days leading to devastating floods.

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. 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. 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. You can follow him on twitter at fernramirez93.