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

[Txsleuth]

Not just that, but they are checking everyone's medication, and you better have a picture ID that matches the prescription...

I can see what they are doing, but it is a little late..are they going to take someone's meds if they forgot their license ...and that woman without insulin..if she goes more than a few hours without that, and/or food, that could be a death sentence.

Now, having said that---any diabetic that leaves their house without their "kit" is a fool!

[RummyChick]

There are some great historical treasures that will be lost.

[Lurker 50001]

This thread is turning into a carnival. If you think I'm riding the high horse that's your problem. We are about to lose a city of 1.5 million, but I guess I could just sing along... in 1814 we took a little trip, along with....

[mercy]

If you watched the foks coming into the superdome, many many smokers, something tells me this is an ordinance that may just be bent a little bit tonight.

[tet68]

Wind speeds are around 60mph at SWpass expected to climb
in the next hours.

Gosh I love it down there, sure going to make some changes!
A lot of storm surge expected to cross the delta from the east.

[berkeleybeej]

Bet you also know the words to "Swamp Fox" (be careful --we're showing our age).

[steveegg]

I've heard that the networks won't allow their broadcasts live on the internets. Probably won't be back.

Gee, what a surprise.

Durn, but that's an ironic nick.

[Types_with_Fist]

Be sure and tell them we at FR are praying for all of them.

Thank you. I'll do that. I will be praying right along with you...:-)

[bill1952]

It was a large seaplane.

If you look carefully at the first picture you will see the nose of a larger one, smashed beneath the hanger.

They flew to the Bahamas on a regular basis.

[BriarBey]

There are too many people here who seem to want the dome to turn into a Irwin Allen disater movie. It won't.

******

Yeah and not even God could sink the Titanic. There is not enough money in the world to put me in that thing....I'd be goin with the turtles and snakes first.

[daybreakcoming]

Thanks - tell 'em we are praying for their safety.

[RightWhale]

Watching the Port of NO webcams as they have those nifty shipping containers that ought to fly real good when the wind kicks up. It's dark and raining, but the lights are still on.

[SauronOfMordor]

Heard on CMSNBC that the NO pumps can handle ONE INCH an HOUR..So if you have , say, 20 feet of flooding in the city..that's 10 days to pump it out..

Except for one thing -- the pumps may not work at all if they're completely underwater. In which case NO doesn't get pumped out for considerably longer, if at all

[gopwinsin04]

The French Quarter.

[WestCoastGal]

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

I guess those smokers can't go outside to smoke either, that's gonna be tough for them. Time to quit! They definitely don't need alcohol, people get weird on that stuff.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

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

NO. NOT SQUARED; IT'S CUBED!!!
Learned that researching wind energy production.

[shield]

I'm doin' good...guess your state side...so how are you doing? ;o)

[Dog]

Lighten up.....we don't need to be lectured on how serious this storm is.

[NautiNurse]

Will pray for your sister.

[mhking]

WDSU-TV is back up, but not from their studios - it looks like they're broadcasting from their sister station WESH-TV Orlando.