Hurricane Katrina Satellite Imagery

Hurricane katrina 12 45z august 29 2005 about 40 miles southeast of new orleans louisiana and about 65 miles southwest of biloxi mississippi.

Hurricane katrina satellite imagery. Tropical storm katrina had just become the eleventh named storm of the 2005 atlantic hurricane season when the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer on nasa s terra satellite captured this image on august 24 2005 at 11 50 a m eastern daylight savings time. Hurricane katrina inside eyewall of hurricane katrina shortly before the storm struck louisiana august 2005. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the noaa remote sensing division the day after katrina made landfall august 30 and concluded september 9. Satellite images and tracking maps of category 5 major hurricane katrina 2005 august 23 31.

Max wind speed 175mph. Katrina was just one of 28 named tropical cyclones during the 2005 hurricane season but due to the tragedy it caused it remains the one most. Hurricane katrina goes e satellite animation infrared imagery. As katrina moved further north and made a second landfall along the mississippi louisiana border the nws doppler radar in mobile kmob measured winds up to 132mph between 3 000 4 000 feet above ground level in the morning.

The imagery posted on this site is of the gulf coast of louisiana mississippi and alabama after hurricane katrina made landfall. Finally the video shows landsat satellite imagery of new orleans before and during the flooding as well as a more recent view of a city still rebuilding from the hurricane some five years later. Noaa hurricane katrina satellite image of hurricane katrina overlaying a thermal display of sea surface temperatures for the caribbean sea and atlantic ocean august 27 2005. The regions photographed range from grand isle louisiana to gulf shores alabama.

Unless otherwise noted the images linked from this page are located on servers at the satellite products and services division spsd of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis. Hurricane katrina operational significant event images. It is estimated that 80 90 approximately 104 119mph of the maximum.