JACKSON, Miss.–Hurricane Katrina is being remembered this week, along with the destruction and heartache she caused Mississippi and Mississippians. Gov. Tate Reeves has proclaimed Friday Hurricane Katrina Remembrance Day.
It was 20 years ago Friday that the storm made landfall for the third and final time along the Mississippi-Louisiana border.
Landfall was at 8:29 a.m. and at that moment Friday, Reeves has asked that a moment of silence be observed.
When Katrina came ashore as a Category 3 hurricane, sustained winds were at 120 mph, with some wind gusts clocked at 160 mph inland. When the storm reached central Mississippi it was still a hurricane and by the time it reached Delta counties it was dumping sustained rainfall. As much as 10 inches fell across the state as the storm moved north.
In Mississippi 238 people died and 67 are considered missing. Most of the deaths were on the coast and in the southern counties.
