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Hurricane Rita formed a little less than a month after Hurricane Katrina.
No. Hurricane Rita came a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina. A good way to remember is that within a hurricane season the names always go in alphabetical order.
Hurricane Rita.
Less than a month.
Hurricane Rita was the next actual one that made landfall and was substantial.
Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23, 2005 and dissipated on August 31. It's landfall in Louisiana was on August 29. Hurricane Rita formed on September 18, 2005 and dissipated on September 26.
Yes. The storm surge from Hurricane Rita reached a height of 17 feet in some places and flooded areas still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Rita was the fourth most intense hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever in the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina was the seventh most intense hurricane ever recorded. So, strictly in weather terms, Rita was a worse storm. However, Katrina was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes of all time.
The evacuation for Hurricane Rita was much more efficient than Hurricane Katrina. The big difference is that the governors in the states involved ordered mandatory evacuations. There were some deaths from heat problems.
Hurricane Rita formed in the Gulf of Mexico on September 17, 2005, less than three weeks after the landfall of Katrina, and threatened the area with another Category 5 hurricane. She became a hurricane on September 21, made landfall on September 23, and dissipated on September 26. Fortunately, Rita was only a category 3 when she hit on the Texas-Louisiana border a week later. Rita prompted the evacuation of Houston, which was the largest civil evacuation in US history.
Tropical Storm Rita became Hurricane Rita on September 20, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina. The aftermath was really something, too. Just ask anyone who was there for it. It was also followed up in September by Hurricane Rita.