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

[Atlas Sneezed]

THANK YOU for your sensible assurance about the structure of the dome.

[jacquej]

Nita! Husband says thanks so much for the information. Dragged Himself away from his worktable to read the description you found, and he is impressed with your research abilities!

He is impressed with the overall structure of the roof, and likes the way the "doughnut" ring at the top of the structure is held down by the weight of the scoreboards, etc....

Hopefully the engineers will post to this, and offer their opinions, as they are the true experts in analyzing this kind of information. The only point of weakness that DH can see is the possibility of the "hypalon" being blown off. If it did, then the insulation would be exposed, and possibly blown off, then the steel roof deck would be vulnerable.

But, remember, an architect is totally dependant on engineers, who are the real experts on structural stability... and some engineers are a whole lot better than others, as is true with architects...

[cajungirl]

NO!! I mean for excuses for not sharing chocolate in a moral context.

[bonfire]

I think we all should email FOX and DEMAND they get him out of there! This is ridiculous.

[steveegg]

Of course, it could be just the summer cold talking.

[kjam22]

He was talking about the luxury "suites"! Not sweets! You all had me thinking they were handing out Hershey bars or something. I guess that would be a point of contention. Who gets the luxury boxes and who has to sleep in the seats?

LOL.....

[southernnorthcarolina]

I thought it could hold 70,000 people; is that all that showed up?

Well, 70K+ show up there to see the Tar Heels win national roundball championships, as they did in 1982 and 1993. :-)

Obviously, hurricane evacuations are somewhat less entertaining. The SuperDome will be accommodating mostly those who, for whatever reason, can't (or won't) leave town. Good luck to them.

[mathluv]

But she got a dig in on something else - I don't remember what.

[NautiNurse]

OMG--do you have a link to the original? I would like to save a big version of that.

[WestCoastGal]

"Yeah but try moving two tons of steel down the road on gatoraide or coffee."

I thought the same thing, my car does not run on Starbucks!!

[cgk]

That is the most perfectly-formed eye I've ever seen. OMG.

[the Deejay]

I was shocked seeing Brian Williams! at the Dome!

Msnbc put Brian out as a street reporter, during a hurricane!? Whoa....

[battlegearboat]

Sounds like everyone will be hanging from the chandelliere.

[mabelkitty]

Brian Williams thinks this is a carnival.
This is disgusting.

[TomB]

I don't know about anybody else, but I cannot wait to read the next post about how much someone paid to fill up their gas tank tonite.

Sheesh people. Can't you wait until the corpses are cold before complaining about gas prices?

[solitas]

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

"Screw you [storm victims] - we're going home..."

[MplsSteve]

The last time I saw a city full of toxic waste was at the Democrat Natl Convention in Boston last year.

[bwteim]

That first image is surreal.

[U S Army EOD]

But in Oil Storm, they couldn't get oil into the US who was using most of it. If it didn't come in here, it had to go somewhere. The movie assume that since it didn't come here, it didn't exist anymore. If that happens here, then there will be a glut on the oil market in the rest of the world because there will be more oil than the rest of the world can handle on short notice. The prices would fall drastically. But we wouldn't have it.

[fishntex]

"He also had a report of an off shore rig with a reading of 215 mph before the instrumentation and pump were blown off

FNC's weather guy was pulling no punches earlier. He seems more like a sports analyst but reminded us that the hurricane hunter aircraft only takes a snapshot of a few areas. There can easily be higher winds than what is recorded.