Hurricane Harvey made official landfall in Texas northeast of Corpus Christi, as a category 4 storm.

  • Harvey made landfall in Texas near Corpus Christi
  • Harvey to cause life-threatening storm surge flooding
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The eye passed over San Jose Island, near Rockport, Texas. 

Harvey still hasn’t slowed down yet, and it continues moving northwest at 7 mph, which will take it into Texas. Currently, it is 30 miles east northeast of Corpus Christi and 45 miles southwest of Port O'Connor, Texas.

The storms maximum sustained winds have been clocked at 130 miles per hour, while its minimum central pressure has dropped to 938 mb.

Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. Coast since Charley hit Southwest Florida in August 2004.  Harvey is the strongest hurricane to hit Texas since Carla hit the same Coastal Bend area as a category 4 in 1961. Carla produced hurricane force winds as far inland as Austin.

President Trump announced he signed the disaster proclamation for Texas Friday night.

The recent trend in our computer forecast models show Harvey moving inland and then sitting nearly stationary for multiple days ahead.  It will tend to wobble west, then east, possibly coming back to the coast, before weakening over land sometime next week.

The problem with that is it will continue pulling in a tremendous amount of rain for multiple days, which will lead to dangerous flooding conditions.  There will be many low lying areas that will likely go underwater and stay underwater for days ahead.

A storm surge warning is in effect for much of the Texas coast. Storm surge flooding could reach heights of 6 to 12 feet above ground level at the coast between Port O'Connor and Sargent, and 9 to 13 feet between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor. 

Devastating and life-threatening flooding is expected across the middle and upper Texas coast from heavy rainfall of 15 to 25 inches, with isolated amounts as high as 35 inches, from today through next Wednesday. 

Harvey is also expected to produce total rain accumulations of 7 to 15 inches in far south Texas and the Texas Hill Country eastward through central and southwest Louisiana. 

 

The hurricane is on the western edge of a persistent area of high pressure over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and this pattern will maintain the current hurricane motion until landfall. Once Harvey is inland over Texas, the steering currents are forecast to collapse and Harvey should begin to meander, prolonging the flooding conditions for several days into next week. 

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