National Weather Service bulletin for Hurricane Katrina

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About 20 hours prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana, the National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region issued an unusually strongly worded statement warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina's winds could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area. A National Weather Service assessment of its Hurricane Katrina activity by its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found the bulletin's "unprecedented detail and foreboding nature of the language used ... helped reinforce the actions of emergency management officials as they coordinated one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history." The bulletin "helped reinforce the message from emergency management officials for residents in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi to heed evacuation orders from local officials."

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