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Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in Greater Houston and Southeast ...
Hurricane Harvey caused major flooding in southern Texas for four days in August 2017. Hurricane Harvey formed on August 17, 2017 east of the Lesser Antilles.Six days later, after degenerating back into a tropical wave and moving through the Caribbean Sea, Harvey reformed and rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico.
The total of 39.11 in (993 mm) of rain in August, mostly from Harvey, made that month the wettest ever recorded in Houston, more than doubling the previous record of 19.21 in (488 mm). [46] Besides Houston, nearly the entirety of southeastern Texas received at least 3 ft (910 mm) of rain, [ 2 ] and an estimated 25–30 percent of Harris County ...
Tropical storm Harvey has dumped over 2 feet of rain on Houston, Texas, and 2 more feet are expected. Tracking Harvey: Before-and-after images show the catastrophic flooding in Houston Skip to ...
Anyone with a boat who can volunteer to help please call 713-881-3100 #HurricaneHarvey — Houston Police (@houstonpolice) August 27, 2017
Harvey hit Texas, the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry, late Friday as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour (209 km per hour), making it the strongest storm to strike the ...
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The name Harvey was used for six tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and twice in the Australian region. In the Atlantic Ocean: Hurricane Harvey (1981) – threatened Bermuda but moved away. Hurricane Harvey (1993) – short-lived storm that did not threaten land. Tropical Storm Harvey (1999) – Made landfall in Florida, causing $15 ...