Current Satellite Image Of Hurricane Harvey

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Current satellite image of hurricane harvey.

About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery. Goes 16 captured this geocolor image of hurricane harvey making landfall on the texas coast at approximately 10 00 pm cdt on august 25 2017. The hurricane s eye made landfall in rockport texas and this before and after landsat image clearly shows shoreline retreat on barrier islands caused by harvey s storm surge.

The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. The size of these files vary from about 1mb to about 18 mb. Hurricane harvey caused extensive inland flooding seen as dark blue areas where the water is relatively clear and green grey where the water carries sediment. Harvey s maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph making it a category 4 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale.

August 25 2017 1845z to august 26 2017 0145z file sizes range from 1 5mb to. Please check the notice with each group of images for the appropriate size. Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response.

The image covers an area of 32 by 65 miles 52 by 105 kilometers and is centered at 29 2 degrees north 95 8 degrees west. 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. Landfall in texas between port aransas port o connor. Hurricane harvey makes landfall on the texas coast.

Landsat 8 captured the before image august 19 2017 and landsat 7 acquired the after image on september 12 with changes to the coastline still visible 18 days after. Selected harvey animated gifs.