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By Daniel Ward. Hurricane Katrina. Contents. What is a hurricane? How do hurricanes form? What was the most terrible hurricane in the world? The Atlantic Basin What was the duration of hurricane Katrina? How big was hurricane Katrina? When was hurricane Katrina and what was it’s route?
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By Daniel Ward Hurricane Katrina
Contents • What is a hurricane? • How do hurricanes form? • What was the most terrible hurricane in the world? • The Atlantic Basin • What was the duration of hurricane Katrina? • How big was hurricane Katrina? • When was hurricane Katrina and what was it’s route? • What happened? • How many people evacuated from hurricane Katrina? • How many people were killed? • Why did the levees break in New Orleans? • What was the cause of hurricane Katrina? • What happened after hurricane Katrina? • Before and After • How much money did hurricane Katrina’s damage cost? • How many people would have died in New Orleans if they had not bought the cheep replacement walls? • Hurricane Katrina smashes Gulf coast. • How deep was hurricane Katrina’s flooding? • Thank you for reading my hurricane Katrina facts.
What is a Hurricane? A hurricane is a storm system characterized by a large center thunderstorm that produces strong winds and heavy rain.
How do hurricanes form? • The formation of a hurricane must begin with a regional water temperature of eighty degrees Fahrenheit or more (26.5 degrees Centigrade). The depth of this warm water must reach to at least 150 feet or 50 meters. This combination of warm water and relatively shallow depth causes the atmosphere in the area to become unstable enough to create and sustain thunderstorm and convection activity, the two major portions of a hurricane.
What was the the most terrible hurricane in the world? The most terrible hurricane in the world was hurricane Ivan. This is the eye of hurricane Ivan!
The Atlantic Basin • The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially began June 1, 2005 and officially ended on November 30, 2005. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin, although effectively the season persisted into January 2006 due to continued storm activity. • The 2005 season was the most active season on record, shattering records on repeated occasions. A record twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms formed, of which a record fifteen became hurricanes. Of these, seven strengthened into major hurricanes, a record-tying five became category 4 hurricane and a record four reached Category 5 strength, the highest categorization for Atlantic hurricanes. Among these Category 5 storms was hurricane Wilma, the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. • The most notable storms of the season were the five Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes :Denis, Emily, Katrina, Rita and Wilma along with the Category 1 Hurricane Stan. These storms made a combined twelve landfalls as major hurricanes (Category 3 strength or higher) throughout Cuba, Mexico, and the Gulf coast of the united States, causing over $100 billion (2005 USD) in damages and at least 2,048 deaths!
What was the duration of Hurricane Katrina? • The duration of hurricane Katrina was August 23 – August 30 which is a total of seven days!
How big was Hurricane Katrina? Hurricane Katrina’s diameter was 415miles which is 668km!
When was Hurricane Katrina and what was it’s route? • Hurricane Katrina formed August 23, 2005 over the Bahamas crossed Florida before strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico finally hitting southeast Louisiana.
What happened? • EYE WITNESS REPORT: “MOST of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was felt in Mississippi. I mean the ENTIRE state. The problem with Katrina was that she didn't just bring her fast moving winds and hard rains. She sat in the same place for a day! An ENTIRE day! With Katrina sitting still, more water was pushed into the coast line. The wind blown water did SEVERE damage. My mom stayed in a shelter at St. Paul's Catholic church (the gymnasium) during Hurricane Camille. Katrina wiped that building out... Before I go on, I must say that the damage to New Orleans was caused by failing levees. Their floods consisted of stand still water from the surrounding bodies of water.In Mississippi, water came from the gulf, across the roads, pummeled buildings and just kept moving. Homes were levelled; jobs were destroyed, and lives were lost. It was such a scary experience.” BY LITTLERA
Hurricane Katrina Smashes Gulf Coast • Katrina is the hurricane that emergency-management and government officials have long feared would strike New Orleans. Many of the Louisiana city's 500,000 residents live below sea level and are surrounded by the waters of the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and several bays. • "This is a biggie," said Steve Rinard, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office in Lake Charles, Louisiana. "We've been dreading a storm like this." • Hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents evacuated on Saturday and Sunday as the forecasts for Hurricane Katrina became more ominous. "All kinds of evacuations are going on, and shelters are filling up," Rinard said Sunday night. "There are shelters as far away as southeast Texas and all over central Louisiana." A.J. Holloway, mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, said Sunday night that most residents in the lowest-lying sections of his city of 55,000 had evacuated."We don't know what to expect," Holloway said.
How many people evacuated from Hurricane Katrina? • 25,000 people evacuated from Hurricane Katrina while many more thousand remained at the Super Dome in New Orleans.
How many people were killed? • Two were killed in Alabama, Fourteen were killed in Florida, Two were killed in Georgia, One was killed in Kentucky, one thousand five hundred and seventy seven were killed in Louisiana, Two hundred and thirty eight were killed in Mississippi, Two in Ohio which equals in total one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. Plus seven hundred and five were missing.
Why did the levees break in New Orleans? • On the other side of what you might have heard, the levees did not break in New Orleans. The levees were actually able to withstand the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. What happened was that the levees were replaced in some areas of the city with a wall approximately 2 feet thick that fell during Hurricane Katrina. These walls were built in order to widen the canal, but they could not withstand Katrina’s storm surge. So it was the replacement walls that broke, not the levees!
What was the cause of Hurricane Katrina? • Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming.
What happened after hurricane Katrina? Two years after the floods of hurricane Katrina! Who was blamed for the damage of hurricane Katrina? • Two years after the devastating floods that followed hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding of New Orleans took place. • The damage done to New Orleans was blamed on the government.
How much money did hurricane Katrina’s damage cost? • Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast.
How many people would have died in New Orleans if they had not bought the cheep replacement walls? • I think that many less people only have died if they had kept the real levees. They forgot that the people are more important than the cost of building cheaper walls.
Could it happen again…?... • After two years of levee repairs, the Army Corps of Engineers has estimated that there is a 1 in 100 annual chance that about one-third of the city will be flooded with as much as six feet of water!
Thank you for reading my hurricane Katrina facts. Text and pictures by Daniel ward.
