Hurricane Harvey Flood Satellite Images

It is tied with 2005 s hurricane katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record inflicting 125 billion 2017 usd in damage primarily from catastrophic rainfall triggered flooding in the houston metropolitan area and southeast.

Hurricane harvey flood satellite images.

This application displays before and after aerial imagery of locations affected by hurricane harvey. This loop was created by combining infrared imagery from goes 16 s advanced baseline imager which is useful for determining the cloud features both day and night with imagery from the satellite s. Goes 16 sees lightning from hurricane harvey goes 16 captured this animation of hurricane harvey showing cloud cover and optical lightning emissions on august 25 26 2017. Harvey inundated southeastern texas with feet of rain during the past week which has lead to historic flooding.

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. Use the search box in the upper right corner to find an address or look up a business neighborhood or other place by name. Noaa the national oceanic and atmospheric administration has released a map filled with images of many of the areas. Hurricane harvey aerial imagery response.

Hurricane harvey was a devastating category 4 hurricane that made landfall on texas and louisiana in august 2017 causing catastrophic flooding and many deaths. An aerial view of flood damage from hurricane harvey in houston. 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. Geological survey has released new landsat satellite images that show some of the flooding and coastal change hurricane harvey s historic rains and storm surge produced across much of eastern texas.

On august 31 2017 the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis on nasa s terra satellite acquired a false color image top of extensive flooding along the texas coast and around the houston metropolitan area in the aftermath of hurricane harvey a second image shows the same area on august 20 four days before the storm made landfall. The map will automatically zoom to and place a marker at that location.