Slow moving Tropical Storm Harvey was causing record flooding in Houston and other places in southeast Texas.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Harvey was located at latitude 29.0\u00b0N and longitude 97.2\u00b0W which put it about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Victoria, Texas.\u00a0 Harvey was moving toward the southeast at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Port O’Connor to Sargent, Texas.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Harvey is drifting back toward the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 A significant portion of the eastern side of Harvey is over water and the strongest winds are occurring in rainbands over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Those winds are the reason Harvey is still a tropical storm and why there is still a tropical storm warning for a portion of the coast.\u00a0 The circulation around Harvey is circulating over the water and it is transporting large amounts of moisture over southeast Texas.\u00a0 Strong convergence into the center of Harvey is lifting the air and it is producing prolonged periods of heavy rain when rainbands move inland.<\/p>\n
The extremely heavy rain in Harvey is causing record flooding in parts of Houston and other locations in southeastern Texas.\u00a0 The Buffalo Bayou is currently at 67.46 feet (20.56 m).\u00a0 The previous record water level was 61.2 feet (18.65 m).<\/p>\n
The slow movement of Tropical Storm Harvey is exacerbating the flooding.\u00a0 The winds are the steering level are weak and Harvey is now drifting back toward the southeast.\u00a0 Harvey is drifting back over places it moved over on Saturday.\u00a0 The center of Tropical Storm Harvey could drift back over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 If the center of Harvey moves back out over water, it would likely maintain its intensity.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Harvey is forecast to continue to drop heavy rain over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana during the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Slow moving Tropical Storm Harvey was causing record flooding in Houston and other places in southeast Texas.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Harvey was located at latitude 29.0\u00b0N and longitude 97.2\u00b0W which put it about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Victoria, Texas.\u00a0 Harvey was moving toward the southeast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[491,492,115,791,113,493,112,778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}