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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 .
September 24, 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Devastaing storm surge destroyed coastal communities in Cameron Parish such as Holly Beach, but only one person was killed throughout the state due to mass evacuations which were heeded in the wake ...
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:
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 ...
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 ...
The name Rita was retired after its first and only use in the Atlantic, and was replaced by Rina for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. Rita was also used for ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific: Typhoon Rita (1948) (T4831) Typhoon Rita (1953) (T5310) Typhoon Rita (1958) (T5805) Tropical Storm Rita (1961) (T6101, 01W)