How Did Hurricane Katrina Start?   On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 a
storm located near the south of the Bahamas called Tropical
Depression Ten reacted with a tropical wave creating an intense
tropical storm. On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, a tropical storm
rising in the Caribbean was named Katrina. On Thursday, August
25, a day later, the tropical storm grew to the size of a
hurricane. Later that day, Katrina made the shore of the east
coast of Florida killing four people and leaving about 1,000,000
Floridians without power. The storm was expected to hit the
Florida panhandle next, while it was travelling at tremendous
speed through the eastern Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, August 26,
Katrina had grown from a category 1 hurricane (the least
intense) to a category 2, and it had doubled in size from
Wednesday. Later that day, the next projected landfall of
Katrina was to the left of the Florida panhandle, planning to
hit Mississippi and Alabama. On Saturday, August 27, Katrina
grew to a category 3 hurricane in the mid