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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.
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's winds and storm surge reached the Mississippi coastline on the morning of August 29, 2005, [2] [3] beginning a two-day path of destruction through central Mississippi; by 10 a.m. CDT on August 29, 2005, the eye of Katrina began traveling up the entire state, only slowing from hurricane-force winds at Meridian near 7 p.m. and ...
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 ...
At this time it was assigned the name Katrina, the eleventh named storm of the annual hurricane season. Katrina turned north-northwest through a weakness in the subtropical ridge as it organized. [15] The center was also pulled north as it gravitated toward convective bursts to the north. Multiple mesovortices were present within these bursts.
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 ...
On August 29 at 11:10 UTC, Katrina made landfall in southeastern Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane, with 125 mph (201 km/h) winds, and a barometric pressure of 920 mbar (27 inHg); [34] it was the third lowest pressure for a landfalling United States hurricane at the time, and fourth as of 2018.
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 hurricane brought death ...