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Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V
NHC - NOAA ^ | 28 August 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 08/28/2005 9:35:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico. Mandatory evacuation of New Orleans is finally underway. Louisiana officials are warning of complete failure to levy systems, and pleading with people to leave low lying areas. For those who choose to stay, they are recommending picks and axes for breaking through to access their roofs during flooding.

Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be rushing hurricane preparations to completion.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi

Buoy Data Florida

Images:


New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:


Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:
copy/paste into player:


http://www.wjbo.com - BR radio station. Callers calling in and describing traffic etc.
WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518

Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: Dog Gone

Still has a strong west component to motion, landfall might be well west of NO.


1,281 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:16 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: tomkat

Thanks for saying that. Apology accepted.


1,282 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:24 PM PDT by Altamira (Get the UN out of the US, and the US out of the UN!)
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To: spycatcher
Riding this storm out anywhere in N.O. is like knowing that the Twin Towers were about to be hit by two jumbo jets and riding it out in one of the other WTC complex buildings.

Some folks down there don't have a choice.

1,283 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:24 PM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
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To: NautiNurse

Oh, thank God....I have had to skip posts...I can't keep up and must have missed that. Thanks!


1,284 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:29 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: buickmackane

Thank you for the info--please check in with us when you get back.


1,285 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: MplsSteve

The Eastern half of a storm is always the worst. Mobile is East of the storm's predicted path. Mobile and everything West of Mobile will get hit hard. The Western half is dangerous, no doubt, but not as severe as the Eastern half.


1,286 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:34 PM PDT by El Gran Salseron (The comments of this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own risk. :-))
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To: MplsSteve
Or am I reading this wrong?

Yes. They are in Mobile, because any farther west is a death zone, and too dangerous. This hurricane will kill almost everything in its path near the coast, with water and wind.

1,287 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:48 PM PDT by Torie
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To: independentmind
Someone made the decision that the underclass was expendable.

Leftists have always felt that way about people they see as "lower" than them - just look at the DDT ban, which led to the death of 50 million Africans from malaria.

1,288 posted on 08/28/2005 12:19:49 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: SE Mom

If this thing hits at 179 mph, put a long string of expletives after the "Oh".


1,289 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:01 PM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: bjs1779

I can't do anything but hope and pray with regards to the folks in the path of this monster. Well I'll probably donate to the Salvation Army, but I just went out and filled up both cars and the gas can for the mower.

1,290 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:06 PM PDT by StACase
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To: bwteim

"I can't find references other than the usual square of the wind speed. (That is, a 90 mph wind vs a 30 mph
is nine times more destructive)"

Links are hard to find because you really need a lot of processing horsepower to deal with all the variables. Till some math whiz tells me different, the figure the "experts" left me with was roughly the cube of the velocity.


1,291 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:11 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: Dog
Humor Break

What is going on with the Fox info babes...they seem to have the giggles.


1,292 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:26 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: jeffers
My money's on Houston for a landing point.

Did you alert NASA for a possible UFO landing? LOL

1,293 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:33 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: rollo tomasi

I like that analogy. Puts it into perspective a little bit. Think of rocks and sand and even worse plywood flying around at 160 mph.

Jet airliners can take off at about 130-160 mph depending on the aircraft.


1,294 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:42 PM PDT by fishntex
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To: itsinthebag
"Can you explain to me what this means? What do you mean by pressure dropping to 902 mb?"

Millibars is a measure of atmospheric pressure. The eye of a hurricane creates a low pressure area which acts as a vacuum which sucks surrounding high pressure air into it. The lower the pressure in the eye the faster the winds blow as they wrap counter clockwise around the eye.

A hurricane acts as a giant air pump that sucks warm moist air from the lower atmosphere above the ocean and pumps it up into the upper atmosphere creating rain and vicious winds in the process.
1,295 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:46 PM PDT by monday
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To: Man50D

Football will just have to go elsewhere. Lives are more important.


1,296 posted on 08/28/2005 12:20:55 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for our country than anyone can ever imagine. He is solid as a rock)
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To: Dog Gone

They better start advising people caught in any rush as night falls to get to the center portions of the highrises...and they better open them and provision them right now if they are not already doing so.


1,297 posted on 08/28/2005 12:21:01 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: jeffers

The reason I wouldn't want to be in the Superdome is that, even though it's big and strong, in such strong winds all it takes is large wind-driven debris breaking a hole in the side of the dome and the wind would continue to break open the hole and then who knows.

There are lots of houses that could withstand winds of average hurricanes but flying debris creates an entry for the wind and it's downhill from there. That's one of the main reasons we board our windows.


1,298 posted on 08/28/2005 12:21:09 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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To: Torie

FNC reporters have elected to "ride it out" inside the Superdome.


1,299 posted on 08/28/2005 12:21:14 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: roses of sharon

Glad you survived. The news makes this storm sound Biblical in its impact.

Suddenly earthquakes aren't as scary.


1,300 posted on 08/28/2005 12:21:17 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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