Hurricane Harvey, which ravaged parts of Texas in August 2017, cost the US $125 billion (yes, billion with a 'b'). Harvey's total came second only to that of Hurricane Katrina, which hit Louisiana in 2005 and cost approximately $161 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Harvey goes down in the record books as the largest rain event in U.S. history, with the heaviest amounts reported in Houston and Galveston. It is also the costliest hurricanes (tying with Hurricane Katrina) at $125 billion. Unfortunately, 103 people died and tens of thousands were rescued from floodwaters.
PORT ARANSAS, Texas (KXAN) — Wednesday marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey's landfall near Port Aransas. The storm made landfall as a category four hurricane on Aug. 25, 2017, flooding Houston and all of Harris County with tremendous amounts of rain, according to the National Weather Service.
It made landfall along the outer islands of the central Texas coast. Winds were clocked as high as 132 miles per hour, leading to widespread destruction along the coastline. Harvey made a second landfall 3 hours later on the mainland of Texas coast, and within 12 hours weakened to a Tropical Storm.
Hurricane Camille of 1969 had the highest wind speed at landfall, at an estimated 190 miles per hour when it struck the Mississippi coast. This wind speed at landfall is the highest ever recorded worldwide.
Hurricane Carla, the largest hurricane of record in Texas, occurred on September 8–14, 1961. During the storm, a tornado ravaged Galveston Island; at Port Lavaca, Carla's wind gusts were estimated at 175 miles per hour.
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths.
Rockport and Fulton were hardest by the storm as they took a direct hit from Harvey's eyewall. Many structures, residences, and business in and near the Rockport and Fulton area were damaged or destroyed, as roofs were blown off and walls collapsed. Electricity and water services were lost.
Over half of the deaths (36) were in Harris County in the Houston metro area. All but three of the deaths were from freshwater flooding, and none of the deaths can be linked to the storm surge, which is quite remarkable for a category 4 hurricane landfall.
Harvey: Veteran Houston Police Officer Among the Dead Last Friday night, the storm made landfall twice as a Category 4 hurricane between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor in Texas, and then in Rockport, just north of Corpus Christi. Be the first to know about breaking news and other NBC News reports.
By Joshua William Featherstone In the past 125 years, 3 major hurricanes have impacted the city of the Corpus Christi in such a way that leaders in the city had to redesign precautions for safeguarding the lives and beauties of a city tied to the water.
Both systems had stalled due to blocking high pressure that prevented movement further inland followed by interactions with a frontal system to the north.