Tropical Storm Harvey | Sunday Evening Update

The Latest on Harvey

Hurricane Harvey Approaching the Texas Coast (Thursday-Friday)

GIF above courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory

As of 10 PM CDT, Harvey is still a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds at 40 mph. Harvey’s center of circulation (as of 10 PM) is located in between Edna and Port Lavaca (about 20-25 miles east of Victoria) and is inching closer and closer to the Texas Coast at 3 mph.

Harvey’s slight shift east and southeast is allowing for decreasing rainfall rates across the I-35 corridor as drier and more stable air moves in from the north on the western side of Harvey. This is good news for folks along the I-35 corridor, but bad news for folks across eastern sections of central Texas and southeast Texas where heavy tropical rain bands continue to regenerate and spiral into those already water-logged areas. The persistent rain that we have been experiencing all weekend long will become scattered on Monday and significantly lighter. The heaviest rain threat will continue to be focused across southeast Texas and the Houston Metro Area.

The latest official forecast track from the National Hurricane Center does show Harvey’s center of circulation moving back over the Gulf of Mexico sometime Monday before making a second landfall south of the Houston Metro Area (potentially in between Lake Jackson and Galveston), before tracking north through the Houston Metro Area as upper level steering conditions become favorable to pull Harvey north and out of the state of Texas by late Thursday into Friday. Check out the forecast graphic below for more detail (click/tap to make larger).

 Rainfall Totals as of 10 PM CDT Sunday Evening (past 48 hours)

Central Texas

Travis County

Camp Mabry | 7.33 inches

Austin Bergstrom International Airport | 10.42 inches

Lakeway | 4.60 inches

Jollyville | 6.64 inches

Bull Creek at Loop 360 | 6.33 inches

LCRA Redbud Center | 7.43 inches

Manor | 9.41 inches

Elroy | 12.83 inches

Hays County

Buda | 11.30 inches

Kyle | 8.79 inches

Driftwood | 7.38 inches

Bexar County

San Antonio International Airport | 2.01 inches

Bastrop County

Colorado River at Bastrop | 16.11 inches

Cedar Creek | 13.81 inches

Smithville | 21.86 inches

Fayette County

La Grange | 21 inches

Muldoon | 21.12 inches

Southeast Texas

Harris County

Houston Intercontinental Airport | 25.57 inches

Houston Hobby Airport | 25.86 inches

Observed Peak Wind Gusts/Rainfall Totals

Courtesy of the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio Forecast Office