Satellite Image Of Hurricane Harvey Flooding

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Satellite image of hurricane harvey flooding.

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. Use the search box in the upper right corner to find an address or look up a business neighborhood or other place by name. 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. Geological survey in cooperation with the federal emergency management agency hurricane harvey was the most significant rainfall event in u s.

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. A new series of images generated with data from nasa s soil moisture active passive smap satellite illustrate the surface flooding caused by hurricane harvey from before its initial landfall through august 27 2017. Even before hurricane harvey made landfall there were aerial images of the storm over the gulf of mexico threatening the united states with huge white clouds that promised to drop feet of rain. Harvey inundated southeastern texas with feet of rain during the past week which has lead to historic flooding.

Nineteen inundation maps and detailed flood information from hurricane harvey are now available from the u s. The data provided on this site is for informational and planning purposes only. Harvey s maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph making it a category 4 hurricane on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale. View metadata for the hurricane harvey imagery.

Remote sensing by the dartmouth flood observatory shows more than 3 800 square. Individual images have been combined into a larger mosaic and tiled for distribution. The smap observations detect the proportion of the ground covered by surface water within the satellite s field of view. History both in scope and peak rainfall amounts since records began in the 1880s.

Hurricane harvey makes landfall on the texas coast. The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year. A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions. The landsat 8 image from august 12 shows the area before the storm hit while landsat 7 passed over the same area on september 5 to show the flooded brazos river.