Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita was the seventeenth named tropical storm, ninth hurricane, fifth major hurricane, and second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the second-most powerful hurricane of the season (behind Hurricane Wilma) and the fourth most intense hurricane ever in the Atlantic Basin.



The storm first struck Florida after making an approach near Cuba and went on to strike Texas and Louisiana. A day prior to landfall, the resultant storm surge also reopened some of the levee breaches caused by Hurricane Katrina a month earlier, and reflooded parts of New Orleans. Post-landfall damage was extensive in the coastal areas in southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas. The storm killed just 6 people but caused 113 indirect deaths; damage estimates are around $9 billion (2005 US dollars).



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