Hurricane Harvey

+ 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. The storm then stalled, with its center over or near the Texas coast for four days, dropping historic amounts of rainfall of more than 60 inches over southeastern Texas. These rains caused catastrophic flooding, and Harvey is the second-most costly Hurricane in history, after accounting for inflation, behind only Katrina (2005).

another high over the northern Gulf of Mexico. The storm made a slow loop late on 26 August into 27 August, and drifted eastward or southeastward for the next few days . Although the center passed well south of the Houston Metro and Golden Triangle (southeastern Texas between

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