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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.
Hurricane Katrina is downgraded to a tropical depression. Water stopped rising in New Orleans. The average home was under 6-9ft. of water. [18] At 10:00 PM CDT (0300 UTC), Mayor Ray Nagin announced that a plan to sandbag the breach in the 17th Street Canal levee had failed. At the time, 85 percent of the city was underwater.
05:00 UTC (1:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Katrina weakens over Monroe County, Florida and emerges into the gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm just north of Cape Sable. [40] 06:00 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Katrina re-intensifies to hurricane strength. [40] 18:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 2 intensity.
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
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.
Tropical Storm Katrina was a short-lived, weak tropical cyclone that produced minor damage across areas previously devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Forming out of a broad area of low pressure in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on October 28, 1999, the disorganized tropical storm made landfall near Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua with winds of 40 ...
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SEE MORE: Special coverage on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina According to the AP, two separate holes were torn into the roof, "each about 15 to 20 feet (6.1 m) long and 4 to 5 feet (1.5 ...