Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part V

NHC - NOAA ^ | 28 August 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[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

[small voice in the wilderness]

Their fortunes? CRIPES. It doesn't take much of a fortune teller.. Hey, where are all the NO voodoo doctors? Can't they do something? I mean, now's the time to prove their mettle.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Not yet. But, they're concerned that there won't be room for all.

[hole_n_one]

........their belongings are being looked at as they enter.

Somebody thinks that a terrorist is going to eneter an evac station?

------------------------------------------------

The FNC explains that they are looking for contraband such as alcohol and weapons.

You can take in cigarettes, but, unfortunately, smoking is not allowed inside the Superdome.

[pax_et_bonum]

With the waves well ahead of the storm, the flooding could occur long before the eye of the storm even makes landfall.

And for people who haven't been through a hurricane before, the prediction of landfall time can be misleading since the storm is half over by the time the eye comes on shore.

I don't think I've heard anyone on the news mention this.

[ClancyJ]

Bless you Leilani - but as someone else mentioned, your father is not in that grave only the earthly vessel for your father. I know - hard to get our minds to accept that.

However, should we need a body at some time after death - it would be a new one created by God - not the worn out, discarded one of earth. Do not worry about your father - he is safe. (Just ask God or Jesus to give your father a hug for you. For some reason that helps me when I am longing for my departed ones.)

[Dog]

I am picking it up also....the tone of the reporting has changed.....very somber.

[samantha]

It will be awful when some of this tape that has Shep interviewing these Clueless people comes out after this is over and the deceased match some of those on Camera. I have serious doubts about that Dome also.

[bert]

.....If this thing devastates the Port of New Orleans....

There will be a new course for the Missippi river. It will be months before a navigable channel is restored.

[MplsSteve]

That's true. There's been so much focus on NO (and justifiably so given the potential for extreme disaster) but Mobile could easily experience terrible destruction as well.

[Warren_Piece]

The weather babe on Fox dosn't seem be loving this. She seems to be visibly shaken.

[dawn53]

And now they have told the poor people not to bring stuff with them, but the Governor told them this morning to bring lots of food, blankets, etc.

[Jeff Head]

Agreed my friend. You get just an empty, sick feeling watching this. So many can't get out, those kids outside th Superdome tear at your heart...so many other foolish that will not ge out...all of them caught up in something beyond our mortal understanding.

I still pray the storm will veer off from a direct hit on NO, but if it does that, there are just others (much fewer in number perhaps) who are thn in its path.

Our prayers are for and with them all. The results of this catastrophie, barring a miracle where it weaknes signficantly and misses NO...could end up impacting all of us significantly.

[oceanview]

well, if it really broke hard west, it could.

[mabelkitty]

She's one of the few Fox chicks who is intelligent on not on television to find a rich man.
She "gets" it.

[Founding Father]

For those of us who aren't from the area, is Plaquemines Parish east of New Orleans proper?

Plaqueminnes Parish abuts Orleans Parish on the southeast side. Miss River passes from Orleans to Plaq. just east of N.O. Plaq. parish extends southeast to the gulf; the Miss River remains in Plaq. for the final 60-80 miles of its' trip to the Gulf (on a map, Plaq. Parish is the finger of land that extends fartherest southeast into the gulf). Hope this helps; cities Boothville; Venice;Pointe a la Hache (Grand Isle is in Jefferson Parish).

[numberonepal]

Track overlayed on latest SST's. (81kb)

[theophilusscribe]

Not coming up now . . .
Wonder if they are gone for the duration?

[RightWhale]

Indeed it will. NO has been of the most vital importance several times in the history of the country. It is the port of the Mississippi Valley, although freight can be transferred to alternative routes at some cost. The port will be rebuilt, even if the old city is moved to higher ground.

[Txsleuth]

What?

[steveegg]

You beat me by 10 seconds on that bit of "good" news (it wouldn't be truly good news unless it got somewhere north are 955 mb before landfall).