{"id":24867,"date":"2017-08-26T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2022-08-26T00:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:27:34","slug":"hurricane-harvey-makes-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24867","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Harvey makes landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n

As Harvey moved across warm waters in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (SST<\/strong><\/a> | OHC<\/strong><\/a>), it continued to intensify (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) to a Category 4<\/strong><\/a> hurricane just before making landfall along the Texas coast around 03 UTC on 26 August 2017<\/strong><\/a> (10 pm local time on 25 August). Overlapping 1-minute GOES-16 Mesoscale Sectors<\/strong><\/a> had been positioned over Harvey, providing images at 30-second intervals — “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images prior to sunset (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the approach of the eye. A comparison of GOES-16 vs GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface ports plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Hurri<\/strong>cane Harvey had a large-diameter eye in GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images at landfall, which persisted — albeit becoming smaller with time — for several hours after it moved inland (below)<\/strong><\/em>. A longer-term animation of 5-minute GOES-16 Infrared Window images (covering the period 23-27 August) is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of four Infrared Window images from Suomi NPP VIIRS and Terra\/Aqua MODIS covering the period 0419-0851 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the shrinking eye and erratic path of Harvey once it moved inland then turned eastward.<\/p>\n

\"Terra\/Aqua<\/a>

Terra\/Aqua MODIS (11.0 \u00b5m) and Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 \u00b5m) Infrared Window images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A recap of the torrential rainfall amounts and maximum wind gusts caused by Hurricane Harvey can be seen in the WPC Storm Summary<\/strong><\/a>. A map showing the final storm total rainfall from Harvey is available here<\/strong><\/a>. [January 2018 update: the NHC released its final report<\/strong><\/a> on Hurricane Harvey]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * As Harvey moved across warm waters in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (SST | OHC), it continued to intensify (ADT | SATCON) to a Category 4 hurricane just before making landfall along the Texas coast around 03 UTC on 26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,11,74,12,49,71,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-goes-13","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24867"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47657,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24867\/revisions\/47657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}