Hurricane Harvey was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the USA for 12 years. What began as a tropical storm became the most destructive hurricane to hit Texas in 50 years.
On 23 August 2017, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded the storm to a tropical depression. By the following day, when NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-colour image at 11:24 a.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT), it had developed over the Gulf of Mexico into a large tropical cyclone.
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