Hurricane Harvey

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+ NATIONAL Hurricane center TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT Hurricane Harvey (AL092017) 17 August 1 September 2017 Eric S. Blake and David A. Zelinsky National Hurricane center 9 May 20181 NASA TERRA MODIS INFRARED IMAGE OF Harvey AT 0419 UTC 26 AUGUST 2017 JUST AFTER LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY 4 Hurricane IN TEXAS. IMAGE COURTESY OF UW/CIMSS. Harvey started as a typical weak August tropical storm that affected the Lesser Antilles and dissipated over the central Caribbean Sea. However, after re-forming over the Bay of Campeche, Harvey rapidly intensified into a category 4 Hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) before making landfall along the middle Texas coast.

gradually bent toward the northwest during the next day or two. The cyclone’s rate of intensification increased earl y on 24 August as a large mass of deep convection formed over the center, and an eye was noted on reconnaissance observations by 1200 UTC that day. Harvey

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