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Harvey exploded rapidly from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in around 40 hours. After impacting the Yucatan Peninsula earlier in the month as a tropical storm, Harvey moved into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico late on Tuesday August 22 nd.
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.
Seven years ago, on August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey became the first Category 4 storm to strike the United States since 2004, and the first to hit the Texas coast since Hurricane Celia in 1970 —marking the beginning of one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history.
Harvey made landfall on the northern end of San Jose Island about 5 miles east of Rockport, Texas at 10 P.M. CDT on August 25 th as a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 mph (115 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 937 millibars (27.67 inches).
UPDATED Aug. 31. Houston received the brunt of Harvey’s rain, with parts of the city receiving more than 50 inches (here are more detailed maps of Houston). The storm made its final landfall in...
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The hurricane reached category 3 status by midday on 25 August while it approached the middle Texas coast and intensified into a category 4 hurricane by 0000 UTC 26 August. 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.
On August 25, 2017, record-breaking Hurricane Harvey became the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall along the coast of Texas since Celia in 1970. At the time, it was also the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since 2004.
Harvey is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours while the center of Harvey is over southeastern Texas. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 40 miles (65 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km).
Some additional strengthening is possible, and Harvey is expected to become a major hurricane before it reaches the middle Texas coast. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km).