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Sunday, August 28, 2005. Just after midnight, at 12:40 AM CDT (0540 UTC), Hurricane Katrina reached Category 4 intensity with 145 mph (233 km/h) winds.
Hurricane Katrina originated from the merger of a tropical wave and the mid-level remnants of Tropical Depression Ten on August 19, 2005, near the Lesser Antilles. On August 23, the disturbance organized into Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas. The storm strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina on the morning of August 24.
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, was a particularly dire warning issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana, warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area.
Refugees on the field inside the Superdome, August 28. On August 28, 2005, at 6 am, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that the Superdome would be used as a public shelter. [2] Approximately 10,000 residents, along with about 150 National Guardsmen, sheltered in the Superdome anticipating Katrina's landfall.
Status. Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Beryl. Tropical depression. August 23, 2005. June 28, 2024. Tropical storm. August 24, 2005. June 28, 2024. Category 4. August 28 ...
August 28, 2005: $16,275,895 [40] 35: September 4, 2005: Transporter 2: $16,540,720: Transporter 2 broke Jeepers Creepers 2 ' s record ($15.3 million) for the highest ...
The first deaths were reported shortly before midnight on August 28, 2005, as three nursing home patients died during an evacuation to Baton Rouge. [citation needed] On September 4, Mayor Nagin speculated that the death toll could rise as high as ten thousand after the clean-up was completed. [44]
Iraq's National Assembly signs the text of the proposed Iraqi constitution.A referendum will be held on 15 October, with leaders of the Sunni community already calling for a "no" vote.