NOAA: Katrina 'Most Destructive Hurricane' to Hit U.S.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday listed Hurricane Katrina as "the most destructive hurricane to ever strike the U.S."

Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane, less than four days after battering South Florida as a Category 1 storm.

"Although its intensity at landfall was less than that of Hurricane Camille, which devastated coastal Mississippi in August 1969, the size of Katrina, with hurricane force winds extending 120 miles from its center, was much larger and the destruction more widespread than Camille," according to the NOAA statement.

According to NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys is considered the strongest hurricane to strike the United States. It had a barometric pressure of 26.35 inches (892 millibars) measured at Long Key, Fla. No wind speeds were recorded, according to NOAA.

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