Hurricane Harvey

The name Harvey has been used for five tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1981's Hurricane Harvey - threatened Bermuda but turned away before striking, no damage.
  • (not used in 1987)
  • 1993's Hurricane Harvey - short-lived storm that threatened no land.
  • 1999's Tropical Storm Harvey - struck Florida, causing $15 million in damage.
  • 2005's Tropical Storm Harvey - earliest eighth-storm formation in the Atlantic Ocean since record-keeping began, breaking the old record set in 1936 by 12 days. Threatened Bermuda.
  • 2011's Tropical Storm Harvey - record eighth storm failing to become a hurricane since reliable records; strong tropical storm that affected Honduras.

Famous quotes containing the words hurricane and/or harvey:

    Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced in, and instantly pronounced his verdict, “Deader ‘n hell!”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)