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

[spanalot]

"nnw;soon to hit very warm water and may strenthen."

yes - and the barometer is record low and that means swell

[commish]

Filled up at 2.45 her in Montgomery this afternoon.

[oceanview]

Bastardi on FNC now, trashing the idea that its "weakening".

[solitas]

ROFL!

[RDTF]

well Hemmer just said good news it has weakened a bit - but then Bastardi said no way it really hasn't

[antivenom]

Amazing that people STILL think the only end product is gasoline...and even more amazing...they still haven't gotten a grip on the fact that a gallon of gatorade is more expensive that a gallon of gasoline...they just haven't consumed 30 gallons of gatorade week after week after week after week...any time lately.

The reason they want to open the oil reserve is too make filling up their gas guzzler less painful...for a few weeks.

[Prince Charles]

There's no question that the Congress will spend whatever it takes to rebuild the city. And it would be nice if some of the Eurotrash ingrates who called us "stingy" 8 months ago will shut their pieholes and send food and cash.

[Euro-American Scum]

CNN showing different things in New orleans and talking about the story. They call it Doomsday scenario.

I've been watching Fox. Has CNN blamed it all on Bush yet?

[hole_n_one]

If Olbermann shows up at 6:00 pm pdt on a Sunday , it's definately a catastrophe.

[FMBass]

Here's the correct lyric, straight from the writer John Fogerty: "Sometimes I write words to songs because they sound cool to sing. Sometimes the listener doesn't understand what I'm singing because I'm dedicated to singing the vowel, having fun with the word sounds coming out of my mouth. `Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans,' is a good example. I think Tina Turner sang `tane' instead of `pain,' as in a contracted form of octane. But I knew what she meant," Fogerty said."

[cajungirl]

LOL,,

[sonsofliberty2000]

Yes we will.

[antivenom]

I work in Lafayette 2 weeks each month...I LOVE that town! I'm in O&G based out of Houston.

[HairOfTheDog]

There'd have been lots of traffic at the last minute regardless. I'm all the way across the country and have never heard the mayor or governor speak and I've known for a couple days a bad storm was coming and they should get out.

What I don't understand is why they aren't using all lanes to head out of town, and why in one shot, they appear to be congesting into only one or two lanes of a 10 lane freeway.

[commish]

I agree with you, I am regurgitating what was being posted on another forum and trying to answer the question at the same time.

I am more in line with her being annular and just flucuating, but wanted to present all sides to keep everyone informed.

[SamAdams76]

Joe Bastardi on FoxNews is giving a very animated discussion on the hurricane. Says barometric pressure is more of a key indicator than wind speed. At 904, this hurricane has still not shown any signs of weakening even though the wind speed was down a little on the last flyover.

[Founding Father]

Flash flood watch in effect south La.; heavy rain along the coast inward; in an eyewall replacement cycle--winds/speed down, but travelling over 90 degree water as it moves near coast--MAY be gaining strength; 60 ft waves along rigs; 15 ft waves at coast; Lake has RISEN 2-3 ft; windscould gust to 40 mph in N.O. tonight;winds will start getting much worse; tornado alerts coming soon; N.O. will be dangerous starting around midnight;roadways will start closing soon.

[Coldwater Creek]

What gripes me is that we are paying at the pump on futures, not actual cost.

[ruthles]

And it would be nice if some of the Eurotrash ingrates who called us "stingy" 8 months ago will shut their pieholes and send food and cash.

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I couldn't have said it better.

[wardaddy]

I have friends who live on Biloxi Bay about 1/4 mile from the beach...they left a wonderful home to stay in Waynesboro about 50 miles inland..

My cousin at Tulane left yesterday.

My cousins in Golden Meadow are long gone.

and my Aunt and cousins on Mobile Bay are hunkering down in an old masonry craftsman style bungalow built like a pillbox above the Fairhope pier.

and the rain is expected even here in nashville soon.