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Total Fatalities
There were at least 1,833 people dead from the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane. -
Property Damage
The total property damage was estimated to be around $81 billion, but it actually cost $108 billion. It was one of the most costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. So many people lost their homes and their families during the hurricane. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive Atlantic Hurricanes of 2005. It was one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in U.S. history. The Hurricane started off as a category 1 hurricane but the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico strengthened the storm to a category 5 hurricane but as the storm got closer to the shore it was degraded to a category 3 storm. -
NHC (National Hurricane Center)
The NHC realized that Katrina had yet to make the turn toward the Florida Panhandle and ended up revising the predicted track of the storm from the panhandle to the Mississippi coast. The NHC issued a hurricane watch for southeastern Louisiana, including the New Orleans area. -
Hurricane Watch to Hurricane Warning
Two days before the hurricane made landfall.That same evening, the NHC upgraded the storm alert status from hurricane watch to hurricane warning over the stretch of coastline between Morgan City, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border, 12 hours after the watch alert had been issued, and also issued a tropical storm warning for the westernmost Florida Panhandle. -
Evacuation
Voluntary and mandatory evacuations were issued for large areas of southeast Louisiana as well as coastal Mississippi and Alabama. About 1.2 million residents of the Gulf Coast were covered under a voluntary or mandatory evacuation order. -
Uninhabitable for Weeks
As the size of Katrina became clear, the NHC extended the tropical storm warning zone to cover most of the Louisiana coastline and a larger portion of the Florida Panhandle. The National Weather Service's New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued a vividly worded bulletin predicting that the area would be "uninhabitable for weeks" after "devastating damage" caused by Katrina. -
The End of Katrina
The U.S. army started to supply food and shelter for all the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina ended and reopened to humanitarian and rescue operations.
