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

[not_apathetic_anymore]

The part where he was reading the stunningly blunt (for a government) bulletin from NOAA or was I ignoring a more dramatic moment of his?

[maggief]

Try here for live streams:

http://www.newspundit.net/medialinks.html

[Torie]

From Baton Rouge.

[steveegg]

Semi-skilled radar manipulation - Katrina's still headed north-northwest at the moment, the center of the eye (still about 30 miles wide according to radar) is about 185 miles south-southeast (165 degrees) of New Orleans.

If it does turn, it looks like New Orleans will get the left eyewall and a bunch of water from Lake Pontchartrain.

[mystery-ak]

sounds yummy...

[tutstar]

I think so too. Wonder if it went like this...

"you want FEMA funds, order the evacuation"


It's absolutely unbelievable imo that they waited so long to do it.

[NautiNurse]

What was the difference of opinion? Sorry to rehash a discussion...

[ken5050]

Any guesses as to when OBL, or one of the whacko mullahs, takes credit for causing this?

[antivenom]

STOP THAT...I'm raiding my kitchen...will triscuits do?

[YaYa123]

YOu want trite? Chris Matthews just called the Super dome, "Noah's Ark".

"How are they going to handle it when the bathrooms don't flush because the sewers are flooded", Chris asked Martin Savage. Savage says, "I don't think that's their main concern, Chris."

[BriarBey]

I get a little nervous when I hear that a gulf oil platform registered winds of 215 mph before the instrumentation failed, then read that the Superdome was designed for 200mph winds.

I hope that figure doesn't include the safety margin.

*****

I don't think to much about the winds hitting the dome and taking it down...its chunks of the surrounding buildings hitting the dome at those speeds...I don't think that was figured into the design. I think its a death trap. But then I would have been on the road and out of there by Friday. The death toll on this monster will leave us all speechless I fear.

[Rebelbase]

This isn't going to be an "overnight flight" for those in the Superdome. If the city floods it will take weeks to pump out the water.

[newzjunkey]

904mb (slightly better than peak low). 160 mph winds. per WWL in NO.

[SuziQ]

I heard on the news this afternoon that the Superdome had been engineered to withstand a storm of up to 200mph. It should be just fine.

[mabelkitty]

dogbyte12 went to a shelter.

[rawcatslyentist]

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

I thought it was pumped a lot of tane (short for octane/gasoline)

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[Gabz]

When the big blow is over, when the blame game starts, the Mayor will blame all problems on anyone and everyone but himself and his administration.

And if it weren't for Max Mayfield and the President neither the Mayor nor Governor would probably have issued the evac orders.............I truly hope both are investigated.......what they did (didn't do) borders on the criminal.

[TADSLOS]

Its now officially a killer storm, according to Whoraldo.

[GOP_Proud]

What he read is a direct quote from the NWS. It was posted here earlier.

This really is THAT serious.

[mfccinsd]

I saw Brian Williams and was wondering if they were looking to get rid of him and find someone else...was very surprised to see him down there...maybe he was bored with the 'boring' stuff? Very odd!