Satellite Hurricane Harvey Category

An infrared satellite image of hurricane harvey a category 2 hurricane.

Satellite hurricane harvey category.

Harvey underwent rapid intensification and quickly became a category 3 hurricane on friday at 2 pm 120 mph sustained winds and then a category 4 hurricane 130 mph sustained winds early friday evening. 35988351183 jpg 1 024 1 024. 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 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.

Maximum sustained winds in harvey s eyewall were 130 mph at that time making it a category 4. Harvey was the nation s first major category 3 or stronger hurricane landfall since hurricane wilma. The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 august while it approached the middle texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricaneby 0000 utc 26 august. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions.

381 kb animation of harvey approaching the texas coast gif 720 480. Five hours after hurricane harvey made landfall in texas around 10 p m. 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. As a category 4 storm it was downgraded to a category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph a decrease.

Max wind speed 130mph. Harvey s maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph making it a category 4 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale. As harvey slowly approached the coast the national weather service in corpus christi issued a rare extreme wind warning. Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites.

Harvey s center made landfall on the northern end of san jose island about 5 n mi east of rockport texas at 0300 utc that day. Satellite images and tracking maps of category 4 major hurricane harvey 2017 august 16 september 2.