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8-28-17 Tropical Storm Harvey (1200Z)

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Please note that this is still an ongoing event and in “Ride-out and early response “posture. Unmet needs mitigation/response and recovery operations are not yet occurring unless activity is capable of being performed per priorities.

 

Operational Priorities are summarized as:
  • Protection of life and property.

 

  • Support of rapid & effective response

 

  • Collection and dissemination of accurate incident information to improve decision-making.

 

  • Accurate recoding of incident costs associated with assigned resources for cost recovery.
Quick Look:
  • Tropical Storm Harvey continues to produce devastating flooding as it slowly moves back towards the Texas coast.

 

  • Sustained winds of 40 mph with higher gusts. The center of the storm is located about 15 miles northnortheast of Port

 

  • O’Connor and is slowly moving southeast at three mph

 

  • The primary threat with this storm over the next few days will remain the devastating, life threatening flooding

 

  • Tornadoes are likely within the storm’s rain bands over the next couple days near the upper Texas coast.
SITREP
  • Mandatory / voluntary evacuations underway across impacted arrears

 

  • Army Corps of Engineering’s relieving dam pressure through controlled release. Impacts to lower regions anticipated as result.

 

  • Concerns for biological / environmental hazards such as sewage / chemical infiltration are rising.

 

  • Fuel availability along evacuation routes of concern but not critical.

 

Links of interest.
National Hurricane Center:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?cone#contents

 

Texas Department of Transportation Hurricane Harvey Information

http://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/traffic/safety/weather/hurricane.html

 

Chemical Hazards in Floods & Disasters

http://www.sciencecorps.org/Chemical_Hazards_in_Floods_and_Disasters.pdf

 

FEMA Flood tips

https://www.ready.gov/floods

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