Tropical Storm Harvey

  • Credit

    NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Tropical Storm Harvey formed in the Atlantic Ocean well offshore from the U.S. mainland in early August 2005. It made a grazing pass by Bermuda and was heading north and east into the mid-Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Harvey is more remarkable for being the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season than for any particular hazard it has posed. Harvey is the earliest recorded eighth storm in a season. This and a number of other factors have led forecasters to predict that the 2005 hurricane season may be the most active recorded, with projections calling for three to five more hurricanes (two of the previous eight storms reached hurricane status, Dennis and Emily), as well as a number of tropical storms.

This image shows Tropical Storm Harvey as recorded by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite at 14:30 UTC (around 10:30 a.m. local time in Bermuda) on August 4, 2005. The storm has formed the characteristic spiral shape of a hurricane, but with winds around 100 kilometers per hour (65 miles per hour), it is not quite hurricane strength. As of August 5, Tropical Storm Harvey was not predicted to make landfall nor become any stronger, though it was forecasted to remain a strong storm in the northern Atlantic for several days.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2005-08-04

  • Event Start Date

    2005-08-03

  • NH Image ID

    13022

  • NH Event ID

    10735

  • NH Posting Date

    2005-08-05