Posted on 08/26/2017 4:39:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport TX about 10:00PM CDT Friday night. Top sustained winds were 130mph. Rockport High School sustained heavy damage when a portion of the roof collapsed. A senior housing complex collapsed. The Rockport courthouse sustained major damage with “a cargo trailer halfway in the building.” Multiple tornadoes reported in the Houston/Galveston areas. There are reports of scattered structural fires and a shooting was reported in Corpus Christi. Residents along the San Bernard River were advised to evacuate and most TX Gulf coast counties are under flash flood watches.
Many locations are under a boil-water notice. Power outages are widespread. President Donald Trump promptly granted a Disaster Declaration to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request. More than 700 members of the Texas Army and Air National Guards, Texas State Guard and the Texas Military Department have been activated and are positioning themselves throughout the state ahead of Hurricane Harvey and its anticipated landfall later this week. Ahead of the storm, FEMA sent supplies from its warehouse in Fort Worth to a staging point at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio.
Mash image to find lots of satellite imagery links
Public Advisories
Severe Weather Watches and Warnings TX
NHC Discussions
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Corpus Christi
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Galveston
Buoy Data near Harvey
Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
I have been watching various news conferences regarding the hurricane and its aftermath, and I am struck by the unbelievable level of STUPID among the press!! It is breathtaking how dense they all seem to be!
Can see the clear path of a twister. Amazing footage.
Good grief! You’ve a full plate. Sorry for that.
These drone videos are pretty cool. Imagine if we’d had them for Katrina and Ike?
Be well, thanks for your posts.
@chitakhou Tornado in Cypress pic.twitter.com/kXfPpR6sIA— Greg Glasson (@GJGlasson) August 26, 2017
Yikes~
Population size of that tornado’ path very rural or close to some small town or city size?
When 120 mph winds, torrential rain, and catastrophic flooding just aren’t enough...
Car flipped on FM 529, near Cypress Falls HS.
Getting this directly from KHOU 11 Houston.
Tornado Warning
Issued: 4:24 PM CDT Aug. 26, 2017 – National Weather Service
... A Tornado Warning remains in effect until 500 PM CDT for
southeastern Grimes... East Central Washington... southwestern
Montgomery... northeastern Waller and northwestern Harris counties...
at 421 PM CDT, three separate rotating severe thunderstorms are
capable of producing a tornado in the warned area. One was located
between Addicks and Jersey Village. The second was over Highway 290
near Cypress. The third a couple miles east of Waller on the Harris
and Waller County line. All were moving northwest at 35 mph.
Three tornadoes!
thanks for this new thread...
Cypress, Texas @FoxNews @KHOU pic.twitter.com/kCLswv8YWC— Kendall Haynes (@kendall_haynes) August 26, 2017
Population varies. Mix of rural with new home subdivisions/shopping/restaurants, etc.
https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu/status/901487797504282625
Try this link.The other did not show up clickable.Reed is showing video of where Jeff rode out the cat 4 last night.
As if the flooding risk/fears and winds are not enough for impacted areas of Texas!!!
I understood last night that most models showed the center eye moving on-shore and then proceeding inland until west of Victoria. At that point I thought that steering currents in the upper atmosphere were going to take it northeast or east again or it would die out going southwest. However, we have now spent about eight hours sitting west of Victoria...
What is the current prognosis anyone?
:) Must be a lucky color.(((((Hugs))))Your not in this mess are you?
Is #blueshed the spawn of tsunami blue building?
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