Hurricane Harvey Makes Landfall Near Corpus Christi, Tex.
— Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Central Texas coast as a Category 4 storm late Friday, according to the
National Hurricane Center, which warned of catastrophic flooding from the storm surge and torrential rains.
The hospital opened last year and was “built to withstand a significant hurricane,” he
said, after Hurricane Ike caused severe damage to the former medical campus in 2008.
“Due to the slow motion of Harvey and a prolonged period of onshore flow,” the
hurricane center said, “water levels will remain elevated for several days.”
Forecasters called it the first “major hurricane” to hit the United States in nearly 12 years.
“We are hunkered down,” said William McKeon, the center’s president
and chief executive, speaking by phone from his office as the hurricane made landfall about 200 miles southwest of the city.
The hurricane center warned that the storm surge would peak between 9 to 13 feet above ground level in the Corpus Christi area.