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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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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 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.
Source Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Wikipedia)
Storm surge from Hurricane Katrina, over 25 feet in parts of Mississippi, was the disaster's single deadliest mechanism.
Hurricane Katrina is one of the costliest and deadliest tropical cyclones in United States history.
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Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that affected the Southeastern United States in late August 2005, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans.
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Early on August 28, Katrina peaked as a Category 5 hurricane, with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 902 mbar (26.64 inHg).
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