Hurricane katrina august 2005 national weather service. An instrumented tower run by the florida coastal monitoring program fcmp at. But the cycle refueled over the gulf of mexico and grew into a category 5. Events timeline for hurricane katrina including dates and news items. Welcome to the practical guide to hurricane plotting and tracking, filled with tidbits and other miscellaneous information. Here you may find the answer to a lot of your trivial but oh so frustrating when you cant find the answer questions. Timeline meteorological history tornado outbreak preparations. The new york times has a sliding timeline showing the areas of. Katrina and urged congress to approve a massive reconstruction program. As sad as the loss of more than 2,000 people from these hurricanes, the worst loss of life in u.
Hurricane katrina made landfall on august 29, 2005, in southeastern louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. Administration noaa map of hurricane katrina shows the route. An unofficial wind gust was clocked at 199 miles per hour. Its hurricaneforce winds reached 75 nautical miles east. An instrumented tower run by the florida coastal monitoring program. Fema has hurricane katrina flood recovery maps available that show the. Coastal storm surge flooding of 20 to 30 feet above normal tide levels, along with large and dangerous battering waves, occurred near and to the east of where the center of. This article contains a historical timeline of the events of hurricane katrina on august 2330. Fema announces a transitionalhousing program, providing rental assistance to. Click for a larger map of the galveston 1900 hurricane. This wikipedia article contains a detailed historical timeline of the events of hurricane katrina.
Hurricane katrina changed the gulf coast landscape and face of its culture when it hit in 2005. Hurricane force winds extended outward up to 105 miles from the center of the storm. Hurricane katrina hit florida before new orleans the first state in the united states that hurricane katrina hit was not louisiana or mississippi. It was the sixthstrongest atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third. Hurricane irma was the most powerful atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Hurricanes in history national hurricane center noaa.
Map plotting the track and the intensity of the storm, according to the saffirsimpson. For an interactive map of the atlanticgulf hurricane visit the noaa office for coastal management. For an interactive map of the atlanticgulf hurricane visit the noaa office for coastal. An aerial view of hurricane katrina shutterstock the atlantic. Key events show the progression and setbacks of the damage, rescue and rebuilding. Russel honor, commander, joint task force katrina, said that the gulf states began the process of requesting additional forces on friday, 826.
Hurricane katrina was a category 5 hurricane that hit louisiana on august 29, 2005. Katrina was then a large category 3 hurricane see appendix a for saffirsimpson scale with winds of 125 mph and a central pressure of 920 millibars mb. Moving northwestward, it became tropical storm katrina during the following day. Katrina became a hurricane on august 25, 2005 within 24 hours of naming katrina as a tropical storm, noaa classified the storm as a hurricane. It was a category 5 storm when it made landfall on barbuda on september 6, 2017. Hurricane katrina first made landfall in florida as a mere tropical storm. Hurricane katrina flattened much of the coast of louisiana and mississippi. Hurricane katrina, tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern united states in august 2005, breaching levees and causing widespread damage and deaths.
Heres what hurricane katrina looked like nearpeak intensity as it barreled down on the gulf coast. In 2019, 87% of world visions total operating expenses were used for programs. The new york times has a sliding timeline showing the areas of repopulation for the new orleans area. Hurricane katrina was a category 5 tropical cyclone that occurred in august 2005, which. It is now tropical storm katrina, the 11th named storm of 2005, about 230 miles 370 kilometers east of miami. This makes katrina the third most intense united states u.
The interagency performance evaluation task force was a group of government, academic and private sector scientists and engineers who conducted a forensic investigation of the ef. So in terms of lives lost, katrina and sandy killed more than 2,000 people, whereas the hurricane harvey death toll was less than 100 people. A national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa map of. Tropical depression that will later become hurricane katrina begins to form over the. Somewhere else on our website we have information available on the current situation in the caribbean. Kathleen blanco declares state of emergency in louisiana office of the governor. Storm surge map depicting a portion of storm surge data.
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