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First Notice - 5 p.m.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, reports yet another depression in the tropical system, 560km east of Miami. -
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Hurricane Katrina - Timeline
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Depression to Storm - 11 a.m.
With its strongest wind blowing at 65km/hour, this tropical storm is the eleventh named storm in 2005; Katrina. -
She turns Hurricane - 5-7 p.m.
Over two days, Storm Katrina developed into a Category One Hurricane, with a wind force of around 120km/hour. The eye of the hurricane comes ashore between North Miami Beach and Florida's southeastern coast. Two people are killed by falling trees. -
Reclassification - 1 a.m.
As Katrina weakens over the night, she is reclassified as a tropical storm, with only 115kmm/hour. -
The Gulf of Mexico - 3-5 a.m.
Since the waters in the Gulf o Mexico are warm, this is where Katrina decides to be a man, and intensify to the level of where she can be classified as a hurricane once more. Workers attmept to contain oil from a half submerged, leaking tank. -
Category Three Hurricane -
Katrina now has an increasingly dangerous wind force of 185km/hour. -
Category Four Hurricane - 2 a.m.
Now, the windspeed has risen up to 235km/hour, and the eye of the hurricane is merely 500km south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. -
Evacuation Order - 9:30 a.m.
At long last, while the Hurricane reaches its climax of 280km/hour (Category Five), Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans issues a mandatory evacuation order. Thousands of residents begin to stream out of the city. Katrina is 350km from the mouth of the Mississippi River. -
The Louisiana Superdome - Late Sunday Night
All those families who did not get a chance to evacuate the city, or who chose not to do so of their free will, are left to seek shelter in the Louisiana Superdome. -
To the North! - 2 a.m.
Hurricane Katrina turns towards the Louisiana Coast, and the fiercest winds diminish to around 250km/hour. After 9 hours of approaching, Katrina slams into Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, with 200km/hour, destroying much of both cities. -
Inland Effects on Katrina - 1-3 p.m.
As Hurricane Katrina moves further inland, she weakens at an exponentially declining rate. At 3 p.m., the strongest winds are down to 155km/hour. -
Calm After the Storm
Even though the wind has died down to 55km/hour, floodwaters continue to pour into New Orleans from breaks in the city's levees. The city's levees were constructed to survive the Category Three and Four, but not the Category Five. -
Post-Katrina Aid
Throughout the entire day, a convoy of U.S. National Guard troops and supply trucks arrives in New Orleans and distributes food and water to residents stranded at the Superdome and convention center (Wal-Mart is also involved in the provision of supplies).
