Hurricane Harvey
NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Harvey off the coast of Texas on August 24, 2017. Harvey made landfall the following day in the town of Rockport as a Category 4 storm (wind speeds measured at 130 mph). Over the next four days, it traveled over south and eastern Texas. Depositing more than 40 inches of rain over most areas, Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the contiguous United States. The resulting flooding has been catastrophic. Hundreds of thousands of homes are mostly underwater, and more than 30,000 people are homeless.
Image Number: WEB15734-2017
Jesse Allen, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response, NASA/GSFC
