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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.
- Typhoon Nancy (1961) Basin: West Pacific. Highest one-minute sustained winds: 213 mph (345 kph) Lowest central pressure: 882 millibars. Typhoon Nancy has held onto the number-one rank for strongest tropical cyclone (based on winds) for five decades and counting but its placement at the top isn't without controversy.
- Typhoon Violet (1961) Basin: West Pacific. Highest one-minute sustained winds: 207 mph (335 kph) Lowest central pressure: 886 millibars. For such an intense storm, Violet was surprisingly short-lived.
- Typhoon Ida (1958) and Hurricane Patricia (2015) Highest one-minute sustained winds: 200 mph (325 kph) The Western Pacific's Typhoon Ida and East Pacific newcomer, Hurricane Patricia are tied for the third-strongest cyclone ever recorded.
- Typhoon Joan (1959) Basin: West Pacific. Highest one-minute sustained winds: 195 mph (314 kph) Lowest central pressure: 885 millibars. Joan was the 1959 typhoon season's strongest storm in terms of intensity and size (it was more than 1,000 miles across).
- Katrina First Made Landfall in South Florida.
- Katrina Stalled Over The Gulf of Mexico, Gaining strength.
- The Eye of The Storm Hit The Gulf Coast Near Buras, Louisiana on August 29.
- Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath Killed 1,833 people.
- Katrina Is The Costliest U.S. Hurricane in history.
- Katrina Had A Lasting Impact on The Region and Its people.
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. With top winds of around 80 mph, the storm was relatively weak, but enough to knock out power for about 1 million a...
After passing over Florida, Katrina again weakened, and was reclassified as a tropical storm. But over the Gulf of Mexico, some 165 miles west of Key West, the storm gathered strength above the warmer waters of the gulf. On August 28, the storm was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane, with steady winds of 160 mph.
On the morning of August 29, 2005, Katrina made landfall around 60 miles southeast of New Orleans. Within an hour, nearly every building in lower Plaquemines Parish would be destroyed. Though downgraded to a category 3, the storm’s relatively slow forward movement (around 12 mph) covered the region with far more rain than a fast-moving storm would ...
Katrina’s death toll is the fourth highest of any hurricane in U.S. history, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed between 8,000 and 12,000 people; Hurricane Maria, which killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico in 2017; and the Okeechobee Hurricane, which hit Florida in 1928 and killed as many as 3,000. In Louisiana, where more t...
The Data Center, a New Orleans-based research organization, estimated that the storm and subsequent flooding displaced more than 1 million people, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. It damaged more than a million housing units in the region. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Katrina is the costl...
The mass exodus from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans during and after Katrina represented one of the largest and most sudden relocations of people in U.S. history. Some 1.2 million Louisiananswere displaced for months or even years, and thousands never returned. In April 2000, according to the Data Center, the population of New Orleans was 484,674; ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 storm that made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005.
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Jan 16, 2019 · Hurricane Katrina was the costliest storm in U.S. history, and its effects are still felt today in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana. By Sarah Gibbens. January 16, 2019. • 8 min read....
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Aug 27, 2015 · Katrina was the most destructive storm to strike the United States and the costliest storm in U.S. history, causing $108 billion in damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
