Hurricane Katrina, 2005
By Hae Chang Seong
Grade 8
Due: 4th November 2010
Subtopics of Hurricane
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Description of a Hurricane
Structure of a Hurricane
Types of Hurricanes
Names of Hurricanes
How are the names made?
Different names in 6 years.
Tropical depression and Tropical Storm
SAFFIR SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE
Subtopics of Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina
Direction
No. of deaths and missing
Economical effects
Environmental effects
Crimes
Aftermath
International aids
Description of a Hurricane
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A Hurricane is an extremely powerful, spiraling storm that starts near
the equator.
There is a eye, which is the safest place in the hurricane, and the eye
wall, which is the most dangerous place in the hurricane. (In land, but
in sea, the eye is very violent)
There are at least three conditions for a Hurricane to be created;
The Ocean water needs to be 26 C to provide heat and moisture, the
water vapor, into the overlying atmosphere to provide a fuel for the
hurricane which is worked with a thermodynamic engine.
The water vapor must be combined with the heat and energy to form
a powerful engine to make the hurricane twist and go.
A wind spiral pattern must be near the ocean surface to rise up.
After that, thunderstorms form, to make the air warmer and rise higher
into the atmosphere. If this kind of wind is light, it can turn faster and
get stronger, which is the beginning of a hurricane.
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Structure of a Hurricane.
This is a picture of the structure of a
Hurricane.
 While the wind is gathered, there is hole, and
the center of the hole is the eye. The eye
can be 3 km long until
370 km.
The eyewall is where
the wind surrounds
the eye, and at the edge.
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Types of Hurricanes
A hurricane can be called in 3 ways. In the
Northern part of the Earth, it is called the
name itself, a hurricane.
A place near the Northwest Pacific Ocean is
called typhoons.
A place near Australia (Oceania), and the
south of Earth, it is called Tropical cyclones.
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Names of Hurricanes
Hurricanes are named after Tropical storms.
If the tropical storm’s speed is over 63km/h,
then they give them a name.
And then, if the speed goes over 120km/h,
they give the Hurricane the same name as
the Tropical storm.
For example, when a Tropical storm is named
as ‘Tropical storm Min’, then when the speed
gets over 120km/h, they name it ‘Hurricane
Min’
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How are the names named?
The names are assigned by the National Hurricane
Center.
The reason is because they need to identify and
explain to the people who were affected by the
certain Hurricane.
The “Giving names” started in 1953, by giving female
names. However, from 1979, they started to name
both male and female names.
They rotate the names every six years, and then,
every six years, they recycle the list unless, the
name/s is/are “retired.”
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2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Alex
Arlene
Alberto
Andrea
Arthur
Ana
Bonnie
Bret
Beryl
Barry
Bertha
Bill
Colin
Cindy
Chris
Chantal
Cristobal
Claudette
Danielle
Don
Debby
Dorian
Dolly
Danny
Earl
Emily
Ernesto
Erin
Edouard
Erika
Fiona
Franklin
Florence
Fernand
Fay
Fred
Gaston
Gert
Gordon
Gabrielle
Gonzalo
Grace
Hermine
Harvey
Helene
Humberto
Hanna
Henri
Igor
Irene
Isaac
Ingrid
Isaias
Ida
Julia
Jose
Joyce
Jerry
Josephine
Joaquin
Karl
Katia
Kirk
Karen
Kyle
Kate
Lisa
Lee
Leslie
Lorenzo
Laura
Larry
Matthew
Maria
Michael
Melissa
Marco
Mindy
Nicole
Nate
Nadine
Nestor
Nana
Nicholas
Otto
Ophelia
Oscar
Olga
Omar
Odette
Paula
Philippe
Patty
Pablo
Paulette
Peter
Richard
Rina
Rafael
Rebekah
Rene
Rose
Shary
Sean
Sandy
Sebastien
Sally
Sam
Tomas
Tammy
Tony
Tanya
Teddy
Teresa
Virginie
Vince
Valerie
Van
Vicky
Victor
Walter
Whitney
William
Wendy
Wilfred
Wanda
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Tropical depression and Tropical
Storm.
Before the categories of hurricanes, there is
something called tropical depression and tropical
storm.
Tropical depression- A stage before the tropical
storm. When, thunderstorms combine, it becomes
a tropical depression.
Speed=37km/h-63km/h
Tropical storm-When the tropical depression’s speed
gets over 63km/h. The biggest damage given is
rainfalls.
Speed=63km/h-117km/h
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Strengths of a Hurricane.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina’s speed-280km/h pressure902 mbar
Category:5
The total damage cost-$90.1billion (2010 USD)
Fatalities-1,836
Start&end-August 23rd & August 30th 2005
Start&end place-Started from Southern part of
Bahamas, and ended near Ohio.
Place affected: Bahamas, South Florida, Cuba,
Louisiana (especially Greater New Orleans),
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Panhandle, most of
eastern North America.
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No. of Deaths
Alabama-2*
Florida-14**
Georgia-2*
Kentucky-1*
Lousiana-1577*****
Mississippi-238***
Ohio-2*
Total:1836*****
Missing:135
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Economical effects
$105 billion was used for repairs and constructions, however,
this didn’t cover the oil spill which mostly occurred in the
Gulf Coast. Katrina damaged or destroyed 30 oil platforms
and caused the closure of nine refineries. Mississippi was
also affected, 5,300 km^2 of forest lands were destroyed.
The total damage cost $5 billion. In addition, extremely
many people were left unemployed, which leads to less tax
income to the government.
All of the oil spills exceeded at least 10,000 US gallons
(38,000 L)
Total amount of oil spills: 7,205,440 US gallons, 27,294,900 L
Which means that they lost a huge amount of money which
they could make.
The total loss of money for oil=$11,494,392
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Environmental effects.
The lands that were lost were the lands of marine
mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, fish, and red
head ducks. Overall, about 20% of the local
marshes were permanently overrun by water
because of the storm
The water which flooded New Orleans were pumped
into a river, and those water contained a mix of
raw sewage, bacteria, heavy metals, pesticides,
toxic chemicals, and oil, which made massive
amount of fish die.
This might’ve caused extremely serious medical
problems.
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Crimes
After the Hurricane, there were several crimes,
so an armed troop were sent to stop the
crimes. Then, it led to gunfights, between
the troop*police and the residents.
When they arrested all the criminals, they had
to make a temporary prison at a train station
since there were so many of them.
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Aftermath
This is the aftermath
of Mississipi. Houses
were destroyed and
damaged.
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This is the aftermath of
Louisiana, New Orleans.
The whole place was
flooded.
International aids.
Over 70 countries helped the countries, especially
New Orleans. They sent money, can food, water,
and etc.
The biggest donation made was $500 mil from
Kuwait. Qatar and United Arab Emirates, each $100
mil. South Korea $30 mil, Australia $10 mil, India
and China both $5 mil, New Zealand $2 mil,
Pakistan, $1.5 mil, and Bangladesh $1 mil.
Because of these donations, New Orleans could
stand up again.
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Bibliography
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