Daylight reveals true destruction on TX coast by Category 4 Harvey but worst still ahead!

Written by Mark Vogan on August 25, 2017 in Hurricane Harvey, Summer 2017, Tropical, United States of America with 0 Comments

THIS POST SHALL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF HURRICANE HARVEY AND IT’S IMPACTS ON TEXAS.

Saturday evening BST

At 10pm CT Friday Hurricane Harvey came ashore as a Category 4 storm generating wind gusts of 132 mph. Scenes of severe damage continue to stream in around Rockport, Port Aransas and Port Lavaca where the eyewall came ashore

https://twitter.com/RobMarciano/status/901423507002839041

https://twitter.com/iCyclone/status/901417036538150912

https://twitter.com/brianemfinger/status/901478715506425859

https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/901534242466930688

https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski/status/901452375180931072

https://twitter.com/NOAASatellitePA/status/901442244980420613

https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/901444881448525824

https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski/status/901453118784798725

https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/901471506445762560

https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/901434327636074496

Unlike some 98% percent of all other hurricanes, Harvey is by no means done and his worst is likely yet to come some 12-24 hours post landfall. Harvey’s winds may be easing on this Saturday afternoon/evening but due to the stalled nature of this vast machine, he shall drop the bulk of the water he contains over Texas through the rest of this weekend and through a much of next week.

https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/901488378369191937

TOP GUSTS

https://twitter.com/NWSCorpus/status/901480027157671937

FACT: Harvey went from depression to major hurricane within 56 hours…

Sat 9.40am BST

BREAKING: Harvey makes a second Texas landfall on the shore of Copano Bay as a strong Category 3, winds at 125 mph.

Sat 8.45am BST

Latest infrared

Top gusts so far

LATEST TWEETS

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/901356856161038336

https://twitter.com/EverythingWX/status/901338631100669952

https://twitter.com/EverythingWX/status/901344799084687364

https://twitter.com/85WMC/status/901336789096570880

https://twitter.com/GarofaloWX/status/901328355936555014

https://twitter.com/GregPostel/status/901270651171995648

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BREAKING: Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor TX at 10pm CT as a powerful Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 130 mph. Central pressure of 938mb. This storm becomes the first landfalling Cat 4 in Texas since Carla 1961.