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Hurricane Rita (2005): With sustained winds of 180 mph and a minimum central pressure of 895 mb, Milton reached similar wind speeds and low pressure as Rita.

The strongest Gulf hurricane in terms of pressure was Hurricane Rita (2005), which peaked three days before landfall as a Cat. 5 storm with 180 mph winds and set the Gulf pressure record at 895 ...

Hurricane Milton is already the second-strongest Gulf hurricane in recorded history following closely behind Hurricane Rita -- and experts predict the Category 5 storm will only intensify as it ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - On this day, 19 years ago, Sept. 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita struck Southwest Louisiana. The storm made landfall early in the morning as a Category 3 hurricane. It left behind ...

Rita began as a tropical storm in the central Bahamas and later intensified into a Category 5 hurricane with winds stronger than 160 mph in the Gulf of Mexico, thanks again to the warm water of ...

The evacuation before Hurricane Rita in September 2005 was one of the largest in U.S. history. An estimated 2.5 million people left home, and O'Malley remembers it.

Hurricanes Rita and Ike made major impacts in parts of Dallas-Fort Worth in 2005 and 2008, National Weather Service data shows.

Traffic inches along North bound U.S. 69 in Beaumont as Jefferson County residents under a mandatory evacuation order flee Hurricane Rita. PHOTO/SCOTT ESLINGER PHOTO 22, 2005 ...

On Sept. 24, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Rita made landfall at the Texas-Louisiana border. The Category 3 storm was responsible for more than 100 deaths and more than $18.5 million in damage ...