When is katrina anniversary

Though a last-minute jog to the right spared New Orleans a direct blow, the federal levee system failed. The levees breached in more than 50 places.

Then, the people of Louisiana didn't know how many big ones the future held, or that on the 16th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 1, people, they would be experiencing dual disasters. The state is a hotspot for the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic , fixed in the crosshairs of a hurricane predicted to be wetter and stronger than Katrina at landfall, if smaller in width.

Hurricane Ida strengthened into a major hurricane early Sunday morning and it is expected to continue strengthen rapidly over the next h…. On the eve of this somber anniversary, Gov. The people of Louisiana are going to be tested.

But we are resilient and tough people. Hurricane Ida is expected to make landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. John Bel Edwards says, 16 years after Katrina struck. Katrina would not have devastated New Orleans so immensely had its levee system not failed, allowing the storm surge to rise to residents' rooftops.

And after years of investigation, planning, and billions of dollars in investments, the city is now better protected by its flood walls. John Bel Edwards noted Saturday. Pump stations have backup generators," Jones said. News tips? Call reporter Andrew Yawn at or email him at ayawn gannett. Sign up for The American South newsletter. Later that day, maximum sustained winds reached mph with an aircraft-measured central pressure of mb while centered about miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Katrina turned to the northwest and then north, with the center making landfall near Buras, Louisiana at UTC August 29 with maximum winds estimated at mph Category 3. Weakening occurred as Katrina moved north-northeastward over land, but it was still a hurricane near Laurel, Mississippi.

The cyclone weakened to a tropical depression over the Tennessee Valley on 30 August. Katrina became an extratropical low on August 31 and was absorbed by a frontal zone later that day over the eastern Great Lakes. Katrina brought hurricane conditions to southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and southwestern Alabama. Higher winds likely occurred there and elsewhere, as many stations were destroyed, lost power, or lost communications during the storm.

Storm surge flooding of 25 to 28 feet above normal tide level occurred along portions of the Mississippi coast, with storm surge flooding of 10 to 20 feet above normal tide levels along the southeastern Louisiana coast. Hurricane conditions also occurred over southern Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Additionally, tropical storm conditions occurred along the northern Gulf coast as far east as the coast of the western Florida Panhandle, as well as in the Florida Keys. Katrina caused 10 to 14 inches of rain over southern Florida, and 8 to 12 inches of rain along its track inland from the northern Gulf coast.

Thirty-three tornadoes were reported from the storm. For additional information please reference this link. Here are some satellite images as Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the morning of August 29th, Katrina's eye was passing over Plaquemines Parish, LA.

Katrina's eye was passing over St. Bernard Parish, LA. Katrina's eye was passing over the Pearl River on the Louisiana-Mississippi border. A very large storm surge ranging from 10 to 28 feet impacted much of the coastal areas across Southeast Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi.

The highest and most devastating storm surge was recorded in the Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, MS areas where storm surge heights approached 28 feet.