Satellite Hurricane Harvey Path
Before harvey fewer than a dozen storms in the past century have reached land in the region as a category 4 hurricane or higher.
Satellite hurricane harvey path. The damage amount exceeded 125 billion making this. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response. Harvey was forecast to have winds in the eyewall between 115 and 130 mph.
Three extreme wind warnings were ultimately issued for harvey. This satellite image from the national weather service shows hurricane harvey as it approaches the texas coast friday aug. A satellite view of hurricane harvey on aug. See 15 maps that explain how hurricane harvey turned into the.
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. Category 4 or higher hurricanes that have reached land category 3. 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. The impact of hurricane harvey s path.
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 was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. 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 tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year.
Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery. Goes 16 sees lightning from hurricane harvey goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017.