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NOAA aerial image of the destruction in Pascagoula, Miss., left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina taken on Aug. 30, 2005. NOAA CONDUCTS AERIAL SURVEY OF REGIONS RAVAGED BY HURRICANE KATRINA
NOAA posted online more than 350 aerial images of the U.S. Gulf Coast areas that were decimated by Hurricane Katrina. NOAA will be flying more missions in the days ahead that will yield hundreds of additional aerial digital images. The regions photographed on Tuesday range from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula, Miss. The southeast coastal areas of Louisiana are being photographed on Wednesday. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division the day after Katrina made landfall at approximately 7:10 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29, 2005, in Plaquemines Parish, La.
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NOAA image of Hurricane Katrina?s large eyewall taken by a NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter pilot on Aug. 28, 2005, when the powerful storm was at it meanest?a Category Five on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.

NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER PILOT CAPTURES KATRINA AT HER MEANEST — NOAA hurricane hunter P-3 and Gulfstream IV aircraft conducted ten long flights into and around the eye of Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Mike Silah, a P-3 pilot, got to see Hurricane Katrina up close and personal, especially when she was an extremely dangerous Category Five storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The day before the powerful and destructive storm made landfall on the USA Gulf Coast, Silah snapped a series of images capturing the eyewall of Katrina.

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NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken on Aug. 28, 2005, at 11:45 a.m. EDT when the storm was a Category Five hurricane.

NOAA MOBILIZES RESOURCES TO AID IN RECOVERY FROM HURRICANE KATRINA — NOAA quickly mobilized a wide-range of its resources immediately following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast. NOAA ships, planes and many experts are helping to assess the damage caused by the powerful storm that is responsible for widespread destruction and loss of life. This is especially vital to New Orleans, La., and Mobile, Ala., two of the nation's major commercial ports.

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NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Dennis as the storm made landfall near Pensacola, Fla., as a Category Three hurricane.

NOAA RAISES THE 2005 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON OUTLOOK; Bulk of This Season's Storms Still to Come — A very active Atlantic hurricane season is underway, and with more storms projected, NOAA increased the number of storms in its 2005 hurricane season outlook. NOAA expects an additional 11 to 14 tropical storms from August through November, with seven to nine becoming hurricanes, including three to five major hurricanes.

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