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Hurricane Katrina
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An extremely powerful tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005, most devastatingly around New Orleans, becoming the costliest tropical cyclone in United States history at about 125 billion dollars in damage. It peaked as a Category 5 hurricane before weakening to a Category 3 at its final landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border, and most of its deaths were caused by flooding from engineering failures in the federally built levee system protecting New Orleans, about 80 percent of which flooded.
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Event DateFinal United States landfall date; the storm formed 23 August and dissipated 31 August 2005. Magnitude or ScalePeaked as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph; made final landfall as a Category 3 1 Death Toll1,392, per the 2023 update, the deadliest United States hurricane since 1928 1 LocationSoutheastern United States, most destructively New Orleans, Louisiana 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Peaked as a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour and made its final Gulf Coast landfall as a Category 3.
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