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Figure KW10: Katrina Wind speed at 10 am. CDT, August 29, 2005: hurricane eye (central blue hub) a few miles to the west of Waveland, Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border, with estimated sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h).
Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Mississippi. A Mississippi hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Mississippi. From 1851 to the present, 108 tropical cyclones have passed through Mississippi. The costliest and deadliest hurricane in this period was Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Katrina continued north into St. Bernard Parish, crossed Lake Borgne, and made its final landfall near the mouth of the Pearl River on the Louisiana-Mississippi border as a Category 3 storm with winds of 120 mph. [1] Waters began to rush through the Mississippi Gulf Outlet and Lake Borgne converging at the "Funnel" with the Gulf Intracoastal ...
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast -- leaving its mark as one of the strongest storms to ever impact the U.S. coast. Devastation ranged from Louisiana to Alabama to ...
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. ... 2004Emily - 2005 Katrina - 2005Rita - 2005Wilma - 2005Dean - 2007Felix ...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, with 125 mph (200 km/h) winds, as a strong Category 3 hurricane. Although the storm surge to the east of the path of the eye in Mississippi was higher, a significant surge affected the Louisiana coast.
Hurricane Katrina. Year: 2005. ... Louisiana and near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. ... in the Houston area and was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the mainland United States since ...
Katrina weakened further as it crossed the Breton Sound, eventually making its final landfall near along the Louisiana–Mississippi border at 14:45 UTC. By this time, Katrina's maximum winds fell to 120 mph (195 km/h) and its central pressure rose to 928 mbar (hPa; 27.40 inHg). [ 1 ]