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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
NOAA - NHC ^ | 28 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical
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To: oldfarmer

Good eye.......


2,001 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:09 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: ken5050
We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
So's we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind
2,002 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:20 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God)
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To: Rebelbase

Pessimism without data is unpatriotic.


2,003 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:25 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: gopwinsin04

Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service
...ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE- ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY- TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES- UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE- 413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL ONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEW ORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTS AROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET!


2,004 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:31 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: dawn53
But I guess if I had to be stuck on the road in a car, or in my house

I got a call from my sister a couple of hours ago. She's in Houma and scared to death. My neice got out with some friends but when my sister tried to leave the roads were packed and she had to stay put. The house is pretty solid and there is no water threat where she is but I'm still very concerned.

2,005 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:35 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: LadyBuzz

I assume the guard will stay?


2,006 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (dixie deadhead)
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To: southernnorthcarolina
There's a second, usually unnoticed lesson from "The boy who Cried Wolf".

The big bad wolf DID show up in the end.

2,007 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:39 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Nashville, TN)
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To: Txsleuth

How can anyone leave home without their meds?

I had to spend the night recently in a hotel because there was a snake in the house and I left in a hurry, but I took my prescription with me.


2,009 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:44 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: bonfire

Crack?

You can't smoke in there either. Now we're talkin riot!


2,010 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:45 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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To: GOP_Proud

Ralph Perk was Mayor when the river caught fire


2,011 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:54 PM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: spectre

OMG! You heard it too, so it's not just me!

LOL


2,012 posted on 08/28/2005 6:23:56 PM PDT by seams2me (Laura Bush is my first lady for 4 more years!)
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To: Tall_Texan

I've only seen the show and found it riveting.


2,013 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:03 PM PDT by maggief (No 'luffs)
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To: homemom

The domed roof of the Pantheon in Rome was very well designed. It is 160 ft. in diameter...the largest span in the world until the Houston Astrodome. It is built of poured concrete and was built in the year 120 AD.+/- It has a large open circular hole in the center of the roof (to let the smoke out I guess). It is still standing today. I went into it last fall. The Romans built things pretty darn good.


2,014 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:06 PM PDT by HuronMan
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To: LdSentinal
Follow the rest of that subthread (too tired and ill to re-run it).

Anybody have a hurricane hunter update?

2,015 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:18 PM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: GOP_Proud

No, the Cuyahoga fire happened about ten years or so before Kucinich.


2,016 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:26 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)
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To: tutstar

Shep Smith was explaining earlier that the reason so many people probably waited until too late, is because they have been through Hurricane warnings so many times, packing up and moving or going to shelters...

just to have nothing happen, and go home, and nothing wrong. Spent money and uprooted family for no reason often enough, and one becomes very reluctant to evacuate.


2,017 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:42 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: topher

Yeah I saw that. Man if that warm water acts like I think it might. This thing may strengthen more. watch the Pressure.....


2,018 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:48 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: daybreakcoming

Okay, I know I will get flamed for this one. I actually LIKE Geraldo! I enjoy when he reports. Yeah, he's goofed major big time at times. But, he is fun to watch and I think much better of Fox than he was at MSNBC.


2,019 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:50 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Txsleuth; jwalsh07
"This lady that Jeff keeps interviewing needs her own show..she is a hoot...not a complaint from her, OH, NO!...

She sure is a hoot. Prayers for Jackie and all those in the Super Dome and in the path of Katrina. LOL, that scissor she is trying to get him to take, cracks me up

2,020 posted on 08/28/2005 6:24:50 PM PDT by deadhead (God Bless Our Troops and Veterans)
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