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

[Capt_Hank]

You can have him....... He is a total fake.

[easonc52]

Al Jeezera TV tomorrow:

Allah punishes the infidels.

No doubt on that one...

[Types_with_Fist]

Thank you.

[Mr. Jeeves]

God Bless Homer & Jethro...

Believe it or not, I actually have that LP! I used to listen to that song all the time in Illinois when I was about five years old. ;)

[Rebelbase]

Ok, I was 21 hours off. That screws the Mayor of New Orleans even worse.

[united1000]

I completely agree. I don't understand how they can get 70,000+ people into a game in a few short hours, but it's taking all darn day to get +/- 30,000 people in during a catastrophic hurricane.

I haven't seen people going to a game carrying bedding, food, clothing and all kinds of stuff(according to the Chief of Police) to a game.  All these people and their stuff have to be checked individually, takes time.  If anything, they should have opened it up earlier just like the evacuation should have started earlier!

[topher]

Is God mad at New Orleans?

It is a city known for Voodoo, partying in the French Quarter/Bourbon Street (and Fat City), as well as strip joints...

Would you be mad at stuff like that, especially partying either on the Sabbath (Jewish day of rest), or partying early into the Lord's Day (the Remembrance of Easter Sunday by Christians -- their day of rest and day for remembering the day when Jesus rose from the Dead).

I don't think that Bourbon Street would fit into a Bible Belt area. Dallas (TX) has parts of the city that are dry from its Bible belt heritage...

[Windcatcher]

"If this turns out to wipe out Old NO, it would be similar in devastation to one of those Arab nukes. Seems like nobody is talking about this storm bringing the country to its knees. Old NO will be rebuilt on higher ground and we can do it without working up a sweat. Same, I think, for an Arab nuke."

Yeah, but with a hurricane there is the chance to evacuate. A nuke (Arab or otherwise) would snuff out 1,000,000+ people in milliseconds.

[Jedidah]

I think she was Miss America.

[small voice in the wilderness]

I just remembered the haunted one: The Myrtles.

Has anyone thought about James Carville and his Carville, Louisiana Leprosy refuge? That's close to NO, right?

[Sonar5]

Regarding BOUY 42001, they just put up a Note on it:

IN RED:

Conditions at 42001 as of
(4:50 pm PDT)
2350 GMT on 08/28/2005:
Note: This report is more than two hours old

Could be it's already lost.

42001
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42001&unit=E&tz=PST

[Txsleuth]

Dang it has been at least 5 hours that you have been griping about Janice Dean...if she offends you so much, why haven't you changed that channel? huh?

I am sick of your complaining about her---and all of the other people on Fox. There are two other cable channels, go visit them for a while, please!

[Gabz]

I wonder if Janice Dean has family that refused to leave or she is romantically involved with somebody reporting or working in the storm area.

I know what people say about him - but Shep Smith is there. She was dong really well up until he started reporting from the French Quarter. Also she did comment about living near there for soem time.

[cajungirl]

bumb

[RDTF]

Please don't talk about this as some kind of an attack by God and justify the thinking.

[TADSLOS]

360K MREs sounds more like it. That's 6 days worth at two meals a day.

[spectre]

I know..:)

I'm going to TRY and get some sleep and be back VERY early in the AM.

Prayers for all the people in New Orleans who don't have safe harbour tonight..

sw

[oceanview]

that sounds about right. 6 or 7 miles to the west of NO is not going to be enough I don't think. but steve lyons was just on TWC, its still got a westerly component to it, slicing towards that 90.0 line of longitude.

[Hilltop]

Glad you shared your replendent memories. You never mentioned once a simple bowl of red beans and rice.

Spare me your wistful sophistry of those memories clad in crystal.

[advance_copy]

FYI we're not supposed to post that nonsense.. BUT, I don't mean to offend you.

You're right, of course... and no offense taken. Just a little overwhelmed by the magnitude of this immense disaster.