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Hurricane Harvey 2017

Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · August 17 to September 1, 2017

Harvey has landfall records in 4 different places: Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Texas and Louisiana. It came ashore in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane on August 26, 2017, with 130 mph winds. With a peak of 130 mph, it ranked the fourth-strongest of the 18 storms of the 2017 season. The name Harvey is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Harvey (2017) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N90°W80°W70°W60°W50°WMonroeBarbados, 45 mphSaint Vincent and the Grenadines, 45 mphTexas, 130 mphLouisiana, 45 mphPeak 130 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 400 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Harvey (2017) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Aug 17Aug 19Aug 21Aug 23Aug 25Aug 27Aug 29Aug 31Sep 2mph
  1. First record (low) 835 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
  2. Tropical storm 310 miles east of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
  3. Landfall Barbados: tropical storm, 45 mph, 1004 mb
  4. Landfall Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: tropical storm, 45 mph, 1004 mb
  5. Hurricane 265 miles east-southeast of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
  6. Major hurricane 80 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas
  7. Peak 35 miles east of Corpus Christi, Texas; lowest pressure 937 mb
  8. Landfall Texas
  9. Landfall Texas: Category 3, 120 mph, 948 mb
  10. Landfall Louisiana: tropical storm, 45 mph, 991 mb
  11. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 30 miles west-northwest of Florence, Alabama
  12. Last record 10 miles east of Frankfort, Kentucky

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind130 mph · tied 146th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure937 mb · tied 91st of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy11.4 · 461st of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone14.8 days · tied 42nd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2017 season

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Storm 9 of 18 in 2017, hurricane 3 of 10; it formed after Gert and before Irma. Harvey produced 5% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados0 mi45 mphAugust 18
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines4 mi45 mphAugust 18
Port Lavaca, Texas4 mi45 mphAugust 28
Lake Charles, Louisiana6 mi45 mphAugust 30
Victoria, Texas6 mi40 mphAugust 27
Alexandria, Louisiana8 mi35 mphAugust 31
Greenville, Mississippi8 mi30 mphAugust 31
Monroe, Louisiana20 mi25 mphAugust 31

Every storm within 50 miles of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados

Similar landfalls in Texas

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Texas came closest to Harvey's 130 mph:

  • Storm 6 of 1916130 mph, August 18, 1916
  • Storm 2 of 1915130 mph, August 17, 1915
  • Celia (1970)140 mph, August 3, 1970
  • Storm 2 of 1941125 mph, September 23, 1941

All 95 storms with a landfall record in Texas

Also peaked at 130 mph

Of 33 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Idalia (2023)942 mb, landfall in Quintana Roo
  • Danielle (2010)942 mb, no landfall record
  • Bill (2009)943 mb, landfall in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Omar (2008)958 mb, no landfall record