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

[HuronMan]

When buildings are destroyed, their above ground natural gas connections and piping will be torn open. Sparks from downed electrical wires and other sources will ignite the gas creating a firestorm as one building after another are engulfed in flames.

[Gabz]

I didn't understand why Shep was talking about fires and being prepared for a fire.

He was discussing what the local Emergency Management people were talking about for htose who are staying to have in their preparedness plans.

[kjam22]

On fox.... outside the superdome... they interviewed a BIG guy who was saying "they got sweets in there.. and somebody is gonna git em"

[RDTF]

That made me laugh. He asked the reporter if he could hang with him in a suite. Glad they have a sense of humor still.

[Kozak]

What do you put it in? I thought there were no cars on Catalina?

[antivenom]

THAT my friend is the proactive measure that should be in place!

[tet68]

I thought it was , pumped a lot of "PAIN.
ie;drugs

[gopwinsin04]

Brian better have that NBC news chopper warmed up and ready to get out! All of the local guys are leaving...

[Dog]

Tom how old is that photo?

[hole_n_one]

Chris Matthews laying the groundwork in pointing towards a Bush Administration failure for the weak preparedeness efforts.

[homemom]

That Superdome freaks me out. I would NEVER go in there! She and Shep are good friends, aren't they? At least they seem to be when they're both on. I can't imagine what the reporters were thinking, going in there.

[Txsleuth]

I knew I had seen Gretchen Carlson locally...I knew it was in the Dallas area..

You know Uma Pemmaraju is also from here...I wasn't surprised when she went national...she is good.

[LadyBuzz]

Chrissy asked Brian if the FEDERAL gov't is prepared to help clean up the mess.......

[Doogle]

I certainly would not want to be in that superdome tonight and risk diying among strangers. I'd rather be under a bridge.

..?????

Personally I wanna go like my grandfather...peaceful like in his sleep...not like the people screaming in the back seat of his car...*SMILES*


Doogle

[conservativeinferno]

Could you imagine being stuck on the Lake Pontratrain Causeway with darkness, waves starting to crash over, and winds starting to howl?

[Founding Father]

Maestri: pray for a slight move east; we will take a lick; good news is people left;we will be ready to recover;trying to help those who stayed by opening some last chance shelters; all our people left; fast approaching too late to leave--last hour or so; about 8 PM will start experiencing tropical storm strength wind;about 10% in Jefferson parish stayed ; not happy with that;some just thought they knew better; some residents of GRAND ISLE stayed--very very sad situation;potential for areas to be uninhabitable for weeks; worst case thousands die, city under water for months-with toxic water---but this is worst case, but this is a worst case storm--anything is possible;we will soon stop responding and will have to wait; "Pray. Pray Hard!"

[RummyChick]

Isn't Williams the anchor for NBC? I dont watch it. What is someone like him doing there.

I wonder if they are trying to win awards for their coverage.

[Howlin]

What did Brian Williams say about Bush?

[Palladin]

I went thru the Pennsylvania flood of 1972. An entire city block in Harrisburg was consumed by flames because the fire engines could not drive through the flooded streets to put it out!

I know it seems ironic, but bad fires always seem to follow floods in cities.

[bill1952]

I don't mind saying it scared the living hell out of me.

Francis sat 15 miles offshore and battered the living daylights out of us all day, until all the electric infrastructure was destroyed, then moved onshore at night.

I live about 10 miles from the shoreline.
The surge breached the barrier islands and wiped out Indian River drive for a long stretch.

Sitting in a totally black, boarded up house while the storm raged outside was no fun.

I built the house myself, and it came through fine, although it shook like hades.

My business was not so fortunate.