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Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and was the seventh-strongest Atlantic hurricane
ever recorded.
Katrina formed over the
Category 1 hurricane before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Gulf. The storm weakened considerably before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of August 29
in southeast Louisiana.
It is possible that Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to approach the United States in recorded history; its sheer size caused devastation over 100 miles from the center. The storm surge caused major or catastrophic damage along the coastlines of
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
.
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