Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 25, 2025.

August 25 was a Thursday in 2005. Just two days before, new Tropical Depression Twelve had formed over the Bahamas. From the get-go, it was predicted to track towards South Florida. The forecast turned out to be excellent, although the storm strengthened a little more than expected.

Hurricane Katrina made its first landfall near Hollywood, Florida – just north of the Miami-Dade/Broward County line – at about 6:00 PM ET 20 years ago today.

The storm was lopsided, tilted by somewhat hostile upper winds. The strongest winds and heaviest rain were on the left side of the system, so Miami-Dade County got the worst of it, including flooding from torrential rain in Miami's southern suburbs.

The storm leaned hard left near landfall, and ended up tracki

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