It was nearly double the previous pre-Harvey record for 4-day rainfall. From August 26-29, 35.6 inches of rain at Houston's Hobby Airport setting the record for wettest 4-day period. The top four wettest 4-day periods all involve rainfall related to Hurricane Harvey. Ranking of the 50 wettest 4-day periods on record at Houston's Hobby Airport. But even then, Harvey’s streak of catastrophic damage was just getting started The storm caused massive damage as it moved onshore, leveling buildings throughout Aransas County, leaving the city of Victoria without power or water, and destroying entire blocks in Rockport. It was the strongest storm to hit Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961. Taking advantage of the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the lack of wind shear-changing of wind speed and/or direction with height in the atmosphere-Harvey rapidly strengthened as it set its sights on the Texas coastline.Īt landfall near Rockport and Port Aransas, Texas, Harvey was still a strengthening Category 4 hurricane with 130-mph winds. But it took until the Bay of Campeche for the storm to get its act together. This devastating storm had its origins thousands of miles from the Gulf Coast of Texas as a storm system that left the West African coast during the middle of August. Harvey made landfall in Texas as a category 4 hurricane. NOAA image using data provided by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory. Suomi NPP satellite image taken of Hurricane Harvey on August 25, 2017 using the VIIRS instrument.
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