After briefly strengthening to a tropical storm over south Florida, Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane before weakening to a Category 3 at its landfall on August 29 near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana.
Katrina, which was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, remains the costliest U.S. storm on record. About 1,400 people died in five states.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm that made landfall off the Louisiana coast on , with maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing...
Early in the morning on , Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane...
Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. The Category 3 hurricane was one of the most-devastating disasters in U.S. history, claiming nearly 1,400 lives and displacing approximately 770,000 people along the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Katrina, catastrophic tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005. The hurricane and its aftermath claimed nearly 1,400 lives, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) became a large and extremely powerful hurricane that caused enormous destruction and significant loss of life. It is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, surpassing the record previously held by Hurricane Andrew from 1992.
The continued impact of the hurricane comes into focus in a new three-part documentary series, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, out on Netflix on Aug. 27.