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Hurricane Katrina was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin.
Katrina weakened slightly as it approached the northern gulf coast, making landfall in southeastern Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on August 29. Shortly thereafter, Katrina made another landfall near the border of Louisiana and Mississippi. It remained a hurricane as far inland as Meridian, Mississippi, when it weakened into a tropical storm.
When Katrina made landfall in 2005, the project was between 60 and 90% complete with a projected date of completion estimated for 2015, nearly 50 years after authorization. [8] Hurricane Georges in September 1998 galvanized some scientists, engineers and politicians into collective planning, with Scientific American declaring that “New ...
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, was a particularly dire warning issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana, warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area.
Katrina also had a significant impact on the popularity of the name for babies. According to the Social Security Administration, Katrina, which had ranked as the 281st female baby name in 2004, dropped down to 382nd most popular name in 2006, 600th most popular name in 2007, and 815th most popular name in 2009. [41]
Hurricane Katrina, which struck Mississippi and Louisiana in August 2005, remains the most deadly storm since 1950, and the third most deadly dating back to the 1800s. ... Katrina - 2005, 1,392 ...
Accompanying Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic coastal impacts was a moderate tornado outbreak spawned by the cyclone's outer bands.The event spanned August 26–31, 2005, with 57 tornadoes touching down across 8 states.
Florida’s 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the state’s deadliest so far, second in the nation only to the 1900 Galveston storm. The 1928 hurricane’s official death toll was 1,836, but local ...