28+ Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge Map Pictures. By 10:00 am central standard time, several sections of the levee system in new orleans had collapsed. Hurricane katrina was a large category 5 atlantic hurricane which caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in august 2005.

Shira bat Sarah: Hurricane Katrina's Storm Surge
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Hurricane katrina's storm surge flooded the u.s. By 10:00 am central standard time, several sections of the levee system in new orleans had collapsed. The next day, the tropical depression strengthened to a tropical storm, and was named katrina.

The map will update every six hours as the national hurricane center makes new.

The regions are highlighted based on their probability of the sea level rising more than 3 feet, with the darker regions being more likely to flood. And then drop to 120 mph winds upon landfall as a category 3 storm. Maximum storm surges, overland flow depths, and inundation distances were measured along the gulf coast of florida, alabama, mississippi and louisiana. It's hard to predict exactly how big a storm since 2014, noaa's national hurricane center has issued a potential storm surge flooding map for areas along the gulf and atlantic coasts of the.