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This set a record for the highest storm surge in the United States, surpassing the 24 ft (7.3 m) storm surge set during Hurricane Camille in 1969, also in Pass Christian. [53] In addition to the surge and waves, Katrina also produced heavy rainfall along its track. [4] Rainfall in the state reached 9.84 in (250 mm) in Hancock County. [47]
The storm surge also devastated the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, making Katrina one of the most destructive hurricanes, the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States (tied with Hurricane Harvey in 2017), [43] and the deadliest hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The total damage from Katrina is estimated at ...
Hurricane Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge across coastal Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The largest surge occurred in the right-front quadrant of the hurricane in Mississippi. Though the total destruction of buildings and infrastructure in coastal communities made post-storm assessments of surge heights difficult, a maximum ...
One of the most recent examples of the devastating, costly impact of storm surge occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina flooded the New Orleans area and Mississippi coastline, according to NOAA ...
Back in 2005 hurricane Katrina brought an astonishing 27 foot storm surge to this part of the Mississippi gulf coast - the highest ever on a U.S. Coastline. Now our ability to accurately forecast ...
In the United States, one of the greatest recorded storm surges was generated by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, which produced a maximum storm surge of more than 28 feet (8.53 m) in southern Mississippi, with a storm surge height of 27.8 feet (8.47 m) in Pass Christian.
But even lower-ranked storms can generate catastrophic storm surge. Hurricane Katrina, which reached Category 5 intensity but made landfall in Louisiana in 2005 as a Category 3 storm, produced a ...
It was also forecast that the storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain would reach 14–18 feet (4.3–5.5 m), with waves reaching 7 feet (2.1 m) above the storm surge. [ 13 ] On August 28, at 10:00 a.m. CDT, the National Weather Service (NWS) field office in New Orleans issued a bulletin predicting catastrophic damage to New Orleans and the ...