Satellite Hurricane Harvey Path

A satellite view of hurricane harvey on aug.

Satellite hurricane harvey path.

This loop was created by combining infrared imagery from goes 16 s advanced baseline imager which is useful for determining the cloud features both day and night with imagery from the satellite s. Category 4 or higher hurricanes that have reached land category 3. 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. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements.

Before harvey fewer than a dozen storms in the past century have reached land in the region as a category 4 hurricane or higher. Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. Three extreme wind warnings were ultimately issued for harvey. The damage amount exceeded 125 billion making this.

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. See 15 maps that explain how hurricane harvey turned into the. Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions.

This satellite image from the national weather service shows hurricane harvey as it approaches the texas coast friday aug. The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response. In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.

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. The impact of hurricane harvey spread throughout the caribbean and the united states resulting in 107 confirmed deaths that include 106 in the united states and 1 in guyana. 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. An incredible time lapse animation shows hurricane harvey from before its landfall on the texas coast friday through monday afternoon.