On August 25th 2005, Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas as a category 1 hurricane. By August 28th it had peaked to a powerful category 5. By the time it made landfall in southeast Louisiana on the morning of August 29th, it had weake...
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Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it ...
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Meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The meteorological history of Hurricane Katrina , an extremely destructive Category 5 hurricane, began on August 23, 2005 when it originated as Tropical Depression Twelve near the Bahamas. The next ...
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it was a Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans, where it was at worst a weak 2. The city's defenses should have withstood ... "Katrina wasn't even close to the Big One," says Louisiana State University (lsu) hurricane researcher Ivor van Heerden, author of the Katrina memoir The Storm. "We better start getting ready."
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21 -- Hurricane Rita quickly intensified into a monster Category 5 storm Wednesday, churning in the Gulf ... "We are comfortable that Texas is going to be ready for this storm," said Paulison, who took office after Michael D. Brown resigned as FEMA director under heavy criticism for his performance during Hurricane Katrina.
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It maxed out at Category 5, but made landfall as a Category 3. Gustav is larger in size and is projected to be Category 5 in a few hours. It will make landfall as a Category 4, or possibly even 5. This one is going to make Katrina look pret...
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Hurricane Katrina regional imagery, 2005.08.29 at 1445Z. Centerpoint Latitude: 33:07:41N Longitude: 89:58:36W. ; Latitude: 33.13; Longitude: -89.97; Data Elements: Hurricane Katrina is now a category 3 storm.
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Folks...the news continues to get worse for the north-central Gulf Coast as it pertains to Hurricane Katrina. The storm has once again rapidly intensified early this morning and now has maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, making it a Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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Image feature on Tropical Storm Katrina ... Katrina is now a Category Three hurricane. Coastal storm surge flooding of 15 to 20 feet above normal tide levels along with large and dangerous battering waves can be expected near and to the east of the center.
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New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees. ... The huge storm, ... Katrina is blamed for at least seven deaths in Florida, where it made landfall Thursday as a Category 1 hurricane. As much as 18...
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