Hurricane Rita, WFO Radar, 2005
Hurricane Rita making landfall near Beaumont, Texas. Louisiana, Lake Charles WFO Radar 2005 September 24 0742 UTC. Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $ billion in damage on the Gulf Coast in September 2005. Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth hurricane, fifth major hurricane, and third Category 5 hurricane of the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
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