Aug 25, 2017
Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas during the evening of August 25th. The storm then weakened to a tropical storm and slowed, looping back and tracking over SE Texas then back over the Gulf of Mexico making a second landfall along the Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of August 30th. Over that 5 day period over Southeast Texas TS Harvey produced catastrophic flooding with a large area of 30 to 60 inches of rain, 23 tornadoes, tropical storm force wi
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 723650). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Brazos County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.