What was the biggest storm ever recorded on the hurricane scale?
Katrina The Most Destructive U.S. Storm Ever WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Katrina is now considered the most destructive such storm ever to strike the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. The Names & Numbers Deadliest, costliest, busiest months, worst states, plus this year’s storm names and more. How & Where Hurricanes Form The science of monster storms. Katrina Gallery Hurricane Gallery Katrina’s sustained winds reached 175 mph and its minimum central pressure dropped as low as 902 millibars — the fourth lowest on record for an Atlantic hurricane, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center reported. The storm weakened slightly before it reached landfall and had less powerful winds than Hurricane Camille, which devastated coastal Mississippi in August, 1969. But the size of Katrina, with hurricane force winds extending 120 miles from its center, was much larger and the destruction more widespread than Camille. The central pressure in a hurricane
