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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: daviddennis
Even a really bad earthquake lasts under a minute and then it's done. Last major earthquake in California destroyed part of a freeway and a few cheesy apartment buildings. I think about ten single family homes that were on hills were destroyed in landslides caused by the quake.

Everything else was pretty much untouched. If you were in a single family home of any description the odds were about one in a million against problems.

From what I can see, this disaster's about to wipe out a city. I'll take earthquakes any day.

Yup. I was telling another poster I've been in Southern California my entire life, and never sustained any earthquake damage, nor have any of my other family members living here.

1,561 posted on 08/28/2005 12:49:46 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: monday

It could be thousands, not hundreds.


1,562 posted on 08/28/2005 12:50:06 PM PDT by tomahawk (Proud to be an enemy of Islam (check out www.prophetofdoom.net))
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To: Howlin
Laurie Duhe........

Katrina is a thing of beauty

1,564 posted on 08/28/2005 12:50:15 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: cubreporter; Northern Yankee

Yes, parishes are counties. However, parishes are also for the Catholic reference, as well.

In this case, the parish refers to the county, not the Catholic reference.


1,565 posted on 08/28/2005 12:50:24 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: rwfromkansas

FGS, catch up.

It's 902 mb and 179 mph sustained winds, gusts to 210.

Skip to the end.........LOL.


1,566 posted on 08/28/2005 12:50:34 PM PDT by Howlin (She's here!)
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To: RDTF

Laurie broke into the "conversation" with Bastardi and Shep. I wish all these folks would stop shouting. They are beginning to sound hysterical. I know this is a deadly serious matter, but these guys are supposed to be professionals.


1,567 posted on 08/28/2005 12:50:52 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: HeebrewHammer

Knock it off.


1,568 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:03 PM PDT by Howlin (She's here!)
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To: Altamira

A good friend of mine was a Navy Sea Bee in Gulfport during Camille (decorated for saving 19 people). Told me some dummies chained themselves to a bridge so they could watch the hurricane come in.

Camille washed a bunch of people out of a third story apartment during their "huricane party". Needless to say, the dummies on the bridge were 20 to 30 feet underwater "watching" the huricane arrive.


1,569 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:08 PM PDT by stumpy
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To: AntiGuv

but how far west would it have to hit to lessen the effects? Bastardi saying his prediction is 30 miles east of New Orleans for landfall. So if the choice is 30 miles to the east with 100MPH winds with the flooding from the lake, or a dead on hit, which is better?


1,570 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:19 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: hole_n_one

Shep: The time to get out has passed.


1,571 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:19 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: nwctwx
ian ...

in your opinion, any chance this monster could wobble and veer away from a direct hit on new orleans, or does it look like it's on a pretty straight-and-narrow path toward NO?

this storm is more imposing than Andrew (i was living in Palm Beach County back then). it makes Ivan look like a child.

1,572 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:23 PM PDT by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: All

These idiots hanging out in downtown New Orleans are going to be bloated corpses in the sun Tuesday spreading typhus. They should send in the natl. guard and drag these fools outa there.


1,573 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:43 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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To: toomanygrasshoppers

They need to get Hysterical if it gets these folks out.

This will be the worst storm to ever hit our nation. Ever...

Think about that.


1,574 posted on 08/28/2005 12:51:48 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

"first thing in the morning and last thing at night cafe au lait and bignets at Cafe du Monde" -no place better for either. Used to visit NO often. Once my wife and I took 2 friends who had never been there. We both had kids in college. We loved to call them to tell them that we ate at Cafe Du Monde for dinner (of course we had had a huge lunch), but it still was fun to call them.


1,575 posted on 08/28/2005 12:52:52 PM PDT by jimbergin
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To: tiredoflaundry

The ONLY plus here imo is that MSM will disconnect themselves from camp cindy.


1,576 posted on 08/28/2005 12:53:19 PM PDT by Carolinamom (Life is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: Fudd Fan

He is irritating, but his forceful style is what is called for here. His perpendicular comment I was not familiar with. That maximizes the strength of the storm when it hits land, because the land's impact on disrupting the storm is minimized. The only thing that might help slightly, is I'm am under the impression that the eye tends to form, and then degrade and then reform in a cycle, and it may reach its max formation before it hits land, and be weakening a little bit. It depends on the speed of the storm to know what the exact timing is. I may have this form, unform, reform thing completely wrong. If I do, I hope someone who knows corrects me.


1,577 posted on 08/28/2005 12:53:27 PM PDT by Torie
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To: maggief
Yes, maggie. But they are thinking that Shep is still there, so how bad can it be? They are ALL fools, including Shep. It's not worth his life for the money..

sw

1,578 posted on 08/28/2005 12:53:42 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: mikrofon

"Someone should tell these people that the storm going down to 902 millibars does not mean that many establishments are still open..."

I can just imagine the conversation...

"Hey, do you think the grocery store is closed? I gotta go make some groceries before the storm hits."

"Well, I heard the A&P was closed, but the millibar was still open as of 9:02 this morning."

"Great, let's go get a 'Bita."

Sheesh!


1,579 posted on 08/28/2005 12:53:52 PM PDT by Altamira (Get the UN out of the US, and the US out of the UN!)
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To: RobbyS

1988. It hit Jamaica and then went on to hit the Yucatan and northern Mexico.


1,580 posted on 08/28/2005 12:53:52 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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