Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2005. It hit land as a Category 3 storm with winds reaching speeds as high as 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing ...

At National Geographic, maps have shifted from charting ... analysis of its damage—from the evacuee disbursement after Hurricane Katrina to the flood warning system during Hurricane Harvey.

Powerful storms like Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans in 2005, can cause major damage to cities without climate resilient infrastructure. A number of factors help form a hurricane.

Katrina did not do what it was supposed to do.The storm was supposed to move quickly due west over lower Florida and then northeast toward the Florida Panhandle. Here is the National Hurricane ...

Katrina's inflation-adjusted damages total $190 billion, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. And while the National Hurricane Center has now adjusted Katrina's ...

"Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history," the National Weather Service in New Orleans said in a statement on the ...