What is Storm history of Hurricane Katrina?
{{merge|Hurricane Katrina|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox Hurricane History | Name=Hurricane Katrina | Type=Hurricane | Year=2004 | Basin=Atl | Image location=Katrina 2005 track.png | Image name=Hurricane Katrina track map | Formed=August 23, 2005 | Dissipated=August 30, 2005 | 1-min winds=150 | Pressure=902 | Areas=[[Bahamas]], [[South Florida]], [[Cuba]], [[Louisiana]] (especially [[Greater New Orleans]]), [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], [[Florida Panhandle]], most of eastern North America | Hurricane season=[[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} {{Katrina}} The '''storm''' '''history of Hurricane Katrina''' started on August 23, 2012. [[Hurricane Katrina]] was a highly destructive [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] [[tropical cyclone|hurricane]] which formed as [[Tropical cyclone#Classifications|Tropical Depression]] Twelve near the [[Bahamas]]. The next day, the tropical depression strengthened to a [[Tropical cyclone#Classifications|tropical storm]], and was named ''Katrina''. Katrina continued on to make [[Landfall (meteorology)|landfall]] on the southern part of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Florida]] as a Category 1 hurricane. While passing across [[Florida]], Katrina weakened to a tropical storm. However, the warm waters of the [[Gulf of Mexico]] allowed it to [[rapid deepening|rapidly intensify]] to the sixth strongest [[Atlantic hurricane]] in recorded history. Afterwards, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near [[Buras-Triumph, Louisiana|Buras-Triumph]], [[Louisiana]], and once more near the [[Mississippi]]/[[Louisiana]] [[border]]. Katrina did not stop going northward through the central [[United States]] and finally [[Dissipation|dissipated]] near the [[Great Lakes]], where it was absorbed by a [[cold front]]. ==Formation== Tropical Depression Twelve formed over the southeastern [[Bahamas]] at 5:00 p.m. [[EDT]] (2100 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]) on August 23, 2005. Some of the tropical depression was from the remains of [[Tropical Depression Ten (2005)|Tropical Depression Ten]]