when did hurricane katrina happen

Hurricane Katrina happened in late August 2005, with its most devastating landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

Key dates

• Formation as a tropical system: August 23, 2005, over the Bahamas.

• First landfall (Florida, as a Category 1 hurricane): evening of August 25, 2005.

• Major landfall (near Buras, Louisiana, hitting the Gulf Coast): morning of August 29, 2005.

In everyday usage, when people ask “when did Hurricane Katrina happen,” they usually mean this August 29, 2005 landfall that devastated New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast.

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