Tropical Storm Katrina (1999)
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- There was also a Hurricane Katrina during the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season.
Tropical Storm Katrina was the eleventh named storm of the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season and the final tropical storm.
The storm formed in the southern Caribbean on October 27. On October 28, Hurricane Hunters reported well-defined circulation near Panama. The storm moved northwest and became Tropical Storm Katrina in the early afternoon hours on the 29th. Just barely reaching tropical storm status, the storm was only a tropical storm for six hours. The storm weakened to Tropical Depression Katrina in the mid-evening hours of the same day.
It made landfall at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua during the time it was a tropical storm. The storm only made things a little harder for the people of Nicaragua who were still recovering from Hurricane Mitch. That storm hit Nicaragua almost exactly one year earlier. The storm died over the Yucatan Peninsula on November 1 as it was absorbed by a cold front.
As far as the NHC can tell, Katrina claimed no lives in Nicaragua. Katrina will be used again in 2005 if there are 11 or more tropical storms.