Hurricane Katrina: Tropical Cyclone Report (PDF)

NOAA National Hurricane Center
August 23-30, 2005

Hurricane Katrina: A Climatological Perspective (PDF)

NOAA National Climatic Data Center
Storm meteorology—rain, wind and pressure; impacts of the storm

NOAA Service Assessment Report on Hurricane Katrina (PDF)

NOAA National Weather Service
Evaluation Highlights Agency Successes & Recommends Improvements

Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Katrina

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA is working with other agencies in evaluating the potential environmental impacts of hurricane Katrina on living marine resources. Objectives are: survey water, sediment and fish/shrimp for indications of toxics and pathogens, and assisting in monitoring seafood safety.

Hurricane Katrina Impact

NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center
The Katrina Impact Assessment Project is a cooperative effort whose objective is to assess and monitor the environmental and physical impact of Hurricane Katrina on the ecosystems and infrastructure of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Katrina Emergency Hydrographic Response

NOAA Office of Coast Survey
NOAA provided emergency hydrographic services for the port areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. These services were performed by NOAA Navigation Response Teams (NRTs), which included side scan sonar surveying for updating navigational charts and conducting hazardous obstructions surveys.

Hurricane Katrina Effects on South Florida

NOAA National Weather Service
South Florida Forecast Office
Miami, Fla.

Response to Hurricane Katrina (Video)

NOAA Ocean Service
NOAA aerial surveys assess hurricane damage, navigation teams investigate submerged hazards, responds to hundreds of pollution releases and scientists step up contaminant monitoring.

Hurricane Katrina 2005 Mission Catalog

NOAA Hurricane Research Division
Aircraft missions into Katrina, satellite images from various sources, tropical cyclone surface wind field analyses, radar data from aircraft and land-based stations.

NOAA Responds to Hurricane Katrina Hazardous Spills

NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
Assisted the U.S. Coast Guard, EPA and the states to identify, assess, prioritize and mitigate nearly 400 reported releases of hazardous material, such as hundreds of stranded drums of unknown materials; focused efforts on 16 significant pollution incidents and conducted preliminary reconnaissance of spills.

Climate of 2005: Summary of Hurricane Katrina

NOAA National Climatic Data Center
Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years. With sustained winds during landfall of 125 mph—a strong category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale—and minimum central pressure the third lowest on record at landfall (920 mb), Katrina caused widespread devastation along the central Gulf Coast states of the U.S.

Hurricane Katrina Gulf Coast Impacts

NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
Maps, charts, images of NOAA’s response to Hurricane Katrina’s impact.

2005 Hurricane Katrina NOS Preliminary Water Levels Report (PDF)

NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
Water levels for Hurricane Katrina, including observed versus predicted water levels.