{"id":360838,"date":"2026-07-04T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360838\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:12:47","slug":"harvey-strengthens-to-category-3-hurricane-with-landfall-expected-today-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360838\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey strengthens to Category 3 hurricane with landfall expected today | Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 3 storm this morning as it closes in on the central coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The storm has maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Harvey?src=hash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Harvey<\/a> is now a category 3 storm. Winds 120 mph, about 85 miles southeast of Corpus Christi. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/txwx?src=hash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#txwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/De4WCZo9a5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/De4WCZo9a5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 ABC13 Tim Heller (@HellerWeather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HellerWeather\/status\/901157507787358208\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted 11:45 a.m. Friday<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 2 storm this morning as it closes in on the central coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The storm has maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Harvey was already expected to make landfall as a &#8220;major hurricane.&#8221; The direct impact will be felt along the Texas coast later this evening into Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Harvey has strengthened to a Category 3 storm this morning as it closes in on the central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128135,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-360838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harvey-strengthens-to-category-3-hurricane-with-landfall-expected-today","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}