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

[shezza]

That graphic is getting a real workout tonight, eh what?

[southernnorthcarolina]

Damn, the Buxton Texaco may run out of ice again.

Sorry, folks, that's an inside joke.

[homemom]

I'd love to see some of those ancient buildings. It's amazing what they were able to build without computers and modern machinery.

[_Jim]

I'm staying positive, I the engineers must have designed the Dome to hold at 200MPH, but I don't think they ever envisioned a direct Category 5 strike with 190MPH gusts.

Unlikely; the force exerted wind follows a sqare law effect - quadruple the wind spped and the force is = 4² or sixteen times greater ...

[Dog]

LOL!

They are going to suspend you for that one....your bad.

[mabelkitty]

Can she get to the Superdome?

[bwteim]

See this one
http://www.usawx.com/sunday28augustlastvisibley.jpg

[umgud]

Ya gotta know this is really huge to bump the Aruba story.

[rollo tomasi]

Sorry, was fooled by Whoraldo's trademark grossly hyper-emotional, Nielson grabbing dramatic delivery.

[alancarp]

Latest hourly report from Grand Isle, LA:

Temp 87 degrees
Wind NE-30, Gusts to 44
No pressure reading available.

[LadyBuzz]

Mayor just tells Geraldo - "it would be a shame if we lost the city"

[homemom]

I like watching Geraldo too! I still wish he was down in NO out in the wind and rain. It cracks me up when the reporters do that.

[ventana]

Was that before or after Meadowbrook? When his story got the gubmnt to release all the psychos out to the street and our "true" homeless problem emerged? Just wondering. V's wife.

[LenS]

Well, people don't carry that much stuff into a game unlike today. So there's a lot less to check for boooze and guns. Also, I'd guess that at a game you have a lot more employees available to man every entrance while today it's just the cops and Guard (and I guess city workers). Gate workers at a game also have a lot of experience at getting people in quickly since they do it so often.

[mware]

That graphic is getting a real workout tonight, eh what?

It is in my blood. I am a teacher what can I say.

[easonc52]

No weapons, no drugs,No alcohol, No smoking!!!

I bet since they're letting the cigs in, there'll be 'smokin in the boy's room'... lol

[shezza]

Ah, I missed seeing that. I was just going by what the FEMA chap said. He specifically mentioned that they'd received 15,000 MREs to feed the folks.

[DietCoke]

I saw Brian Williams outside the Dome a little while ago, though.

[united1000]

Early this morning, I believe it was FOXNews I heard report New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation, but soon after that, I flipped to The Weather channel, and their anchor said the Mayor was about to announce a mandatory evacuation.


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.

 

I heard yesterday that he was called by the Director (I believe it was) of the National Weather Service to really explain how serious the situation was and that they thought he should start evacuations of NO.  Later in the evening I heard him asked about that by WWL  he danced all around it and finally  said he would make the decision about mandatory evacuations early in the morning.  He couldn't have been warned any better than that.