Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI

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

[NautiNurse]

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. Thousands of people did not evacuate New Orleans. Outer bands of Katrina are reaching the Louisiana coast.

Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be in their safe locations.

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:

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

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

[Michael Goldsberry]

God Bless, stay safe!

[farmer18th]

We're praying for you New Orleans.

[SE Mom]

I wondered about that all day too. What I THINK is that it becomes a bottleneck..with a gazillion folks trying to leave- and a limited number of roads to get out...

[demkicker]

I think Shep is crazy being there

Me too. And I think HE's come to realize he's made a stupid decision to stay there also....

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Supertankers cannot deliver cargo at NYC or LA?

They certainly delivered cargo to coastal ports before they built the facility...I think what it does is makes it easier and simpler, no tricky manoevering of ships in port, with the higher risk of accident and spillage, so people are going to use it as a reason to run up the spot market.

[WestCoastGal]

Her name was Jackie. She said it all, you gave a great recap of her words.

Wonderful lady.

[NautiNurse]

will you have internet access at your brother's again?

[Major_Risktaker]

Great Tag Line!

[ozzysmom]

forget about all that...lol the most important question is...have they closed the casinos...lol I mean we need to keep things in perspective :)

[chgomac]

I've been looking for you...this is the first post of yours I've seen all day. Hope & pray that you & yours are OK.
grandma mac

[Rebelbase]

"OIL has many end users...not just people who drive cars."

Absolutely. Have you seen the price of plastic garbage bags lately?

[hole_n_one]

Mary Landrieu dodges Mastthews' question about whether the Superdome can handle what's expected to hit it.

[jeffers]

When I post numbers, they're just numbers. We expect the storm to turn north, so knowing that it is pointed at a certain point now allows us to judge course change over the period between now and landfall.

If you look at the windfields over at Boat, this thing could miss by a hundred miles and still shove a surge into Lake P. New orleans is going to get smacked. At this point the question is how hard.

[TexasTransplant]

>>>"Heard on CNN that NINE refineries would be in the eye of the storm, along with the port facilities that bring in 1/6th of our imported oil (the Venezuelan crude comes in at NO), so it won't be just the oil platforms that will be affected. If this doesn't qualify as an "oil emergency" that merits the President opening our 1.5 BILLION barrels of stored oil in the SOR, I don't know what is. This could put the economy into recession"<<<

OK BOOM, all the freaking oil in the SOR is available to YOU!
Now tell us where you are going to refine it!

I don't think the Morning Headlines are going to be reading "Dip into the SOR" anytime soon.

Pray for New Orleans First then the folks that are going to get next upstream of this Storm. We can deal with the little crap later.

TT

[cajungirl]

Those Lafayette ladies will not only have eggs for them, they will have gumbo all ready at lunch. If you have to evacuate, Lafayette is as good place to go

[blam]

"Charge Carrier make it in okay?"

Sure did...right on schedule. Thanks.

[hawkk]

filled up also @ 2.47. a couple there said they heard on msnbc that gas will be to $5 because of this Katrina. don't know how true that is. the woman working at 7-11 tried to up the prices while we were there, but there had to have been 6 cars in line at the time, so she went back inside the store.

[homemom]

Freepmail to you . . .

:-)

[SuziQ]

MSNBC has just now confirmed the magnitude of the event.

Kinda slow on the uptake over at PMS NBC, aren't they?

[HairOfTheDog]

The other thing I am hoping is that they get these people in the dang door. I understand the desire for security.... but they quite literally do not have all night.