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Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm ...
Hurricane Rita was the first storm to make landfall on the U.S. following Hurricane Katrina, [9]: 1179 which had caused widespread destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi less than a month prior. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] : 1183 Rita was first designated as a tropical depression by September 18, 2005, east of the Turks and Caicos .
[166] [167] The names Franklin, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma from the regular list were used for the first (and in the cases of Rita, Stan, and Wilma, only) time in 2005, as were the auxiliary list Greek letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Zeta. This was the first Atlantic hurricane season ...
Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5 monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated.
Dates active Peak classification Sustained ... Hurricane Betsy was the first hurricane to have damages exceeding US$1 billion. ... Rita: September 18 – 26, 2005:
Radar image of Hurricane Alice (1954–55), the only Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years at hurricane strength. Climatologically speaking, approximately 97 percent of tropical cyclones that form in the North Atlantic develop between June 1 and November 30 – dates which delimit the modern-day Atlantic hurricane season.
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. It caused an estimated $1.42 billion in damages (more than $12 billion in 2024 ...
Hurricane Rita slammed into the Louisiana coastline on September 24, 2005, as a Category 3 storm blowing at 115 mph. It peaked three days earlier over the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 5 storm with ...