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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.
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 ...
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. On any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline, a ...
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Harvey has displaced over a million people, with 44 feared dead from flooding that paralyzed Houston and knocked out the drinking water supply in Beaumont. A week after Harvey, cities deluged and ...
During Hurricane Harvey, the level peaked at 109.1 feet (33.3 m) on August 30, 2017, becoming the highest recorded level for Addicks Reservoir. [8] Water retention at this level was 217,500 acre-feet (268.3 GL). Combined with the adjacent Barker Reservoir to the southwest, the total storage capacity is about 410,000 acre-feet (510 GL). [9]
Hurricane Harvey unleashed record levels of flooding in Texas, which now pose a major public health threat to the Texans forced to live in and around them.