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- On the mainland, the Category 4 storm made landfall near West Palm Beach in Florida on 17 September, destroying many buildings in its wake. A storm surge caused Lake Okeechobee to flood, resulting in at least 2,500 people drowning and houses being swept away. It is the second deadliest hurricane in US history.
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The pressure measurement made Katrina the fifth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time, only to be surpassed by Hurricanes Rita and Wilma later in the season; it was also the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico at the time, before Rita broke the record.
While moving across Florida, Katrina had an asymmetric area of thunderstorms, which placed the strongest winds and rainfall over Miami-Dade County. The highest precipitation total related to hurricane in the United States was 16.43 in (417 mm) in Perrine , or about halfway between Miami and Homestead . [11]
Aug 27, 2015 · By the time it made its way to southern Florida on Aug. 25, Katrina was a moderate Category 1 hurricane. While it caused some flooding and casualties — two people were killed — during its...
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- Katrina first made landfall in South Florida. The storm initially formed as a tropical depression southeast of the Bahamas on August 23. By the evening of August 25, when it made landfall north of the Broward-Miami-Dade county line, it had intensified into a category 1 hurricane.
- Katrina Stalled over the Gulf of Mexico, gaining strength. In this satellite image, a close-up of the center of Hurricane Katrina's rotation is seen at 9:45 a.m.
- The eye of the storm hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, Louisiana on August 29. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Katrina made landfall around 60 miles southeast of New Orleans.
- Half of New Orleans’s 350-mile-long protection system of levees and flood walls was overwhelmed. At 5 a.m. on August 29, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which administered the levees, received a report that water had broken through the concrete flood wall between the 17th Street Canal and the city.
Jun 7, 2013 · Five years ago this week, one of the most devastating storms ever to hit U.S. soil, Hurricane Katrina, all but destroyed parts of New Orleans, as the surging ocean waters it pushed to land...
Oct 23, 2005 · “Three fourths of a century after it struck," wrote Elliott Kleinberg, "to say the storm [of 1928] is still the deadliest weather event ever to strike Florida or the eastern United States does...
Nov 9, 2009 · When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. While the...
