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

[rwfromkansas]

God does what his sovereign will determines. We just ask him to spare NO. He listens, but may choose to say no.

[mercy]

Not when all the sewer lines are full of water and flowing nowhere.

[JediForce]

Wouldn't a low yeild nuke break the storm up with little fallout...or do I need to adjust my tinfoil cap?

JEDI

Lord watch over those we cannot.

[mhking]

Criminals. NO has a lot of street crime. And I understand the authorities are searching people sheltering in the dome for concealed weapons.

But you implied that all the folks in the Dome are of the "criminal class." Not true, and rather unfair if you ask me.

[roses of sharon]

OMG, did you hear him say "I have to do mental gymnastics all day". He sounds totally defeated and helpless.

What story did he hear last nite that he said scared him into a evac?

[wimpycat]

He does sound a little too laid back, but I suspect he merely has a slow metabolism.

[YaYa123]

I tried to describe the mayor at #394.

every other word is "you know",

If the people of New Orleans honestly elected this doofus, shame on them. If he stole the election, I'm sooo sorry!

[bjs1779]

Did I read correctly on here that no food is being provided in that shelter?

You're right. At the very least the NG should be out confiscating food supplies from the grocery stores that have shut down instead of searching women and children.

[Doogle]

FOX reported earlier that the national guard has already delivered water and food inside....(they don't come empty handed)


Doogle

[bert]

The Red Cross cannot designate a shelter they cannot gurantee to be safe.'

[rwfromkansas]

considering the models show it strengthening really close to land, I somehow doubt that. But, hopefully he is right.

[jayef]

That Mary Landrieu . . . she's a smart one!

[Jess Kitting]

In short, those people trapped in high-rise buildings stand a good chance of living through this thing, so don't give up hope yet.

Why not open up all high-rise buildings and use the top floors as temporary shelters for people to ride out the storm?

Better than leaving them at ground level to perish in the floods.

[bored at work]

yah, raise the city ' bout 15 feet!

What mayor can do that!!!

[PAR35]

The field can probably hold some more people

Only if they are good swimmers. On an earlier thread, there was an indication that if NO floods, the field and lower level would be under water.

[mhking]

that the levees have been improved.

The levee's have been improved, but the project isn't finished.

[Enchante]

"there were computer models predicting an LA hit as early as 7am Friday, strong model agreement on such by 2pm, at 4pm there was a weather service call to move the track west towards a S. Mississippi hit with possible further westward shifts, and by 8pm Friday night Gov. Blanco had declared a state of emergency."

So they should have been preparing people for the possibility of mass mandatory evacuations by noon on Friday (could say "stay tuned" for confirmation) and by Fri. afternoon they should have been calling for all citizens except emergency personnel and essential workers to evacuate.... they had more than 48 hours.... now watch, if the carnage is as bad as it could be it will all be Bush's fault....

[Abigail Adams]

The mayor on NO TV said people going to the dome should bring enough food for 3-5 days. Wow!

[11th_VA]

one dome opens up like a JiffyPop!!

I shouldn't be laughing but that's a great image - I wish I was there.

[Nita Nupress]

Btw, someone earlier had a Freudian slip and called it The Superdoom.

Normally, I'd be LOL at that one.

If the roof blows off that thing, whoever was responsible for the design is going to feel awful bad about it. It reminds me of what an umbrella does when you try to open it in a very strong wind.

Thanks for that link, shezza. And Dog Gone, I'm beginning to picture potentially thousands of people dying in this thing. I gotta get away from the television! Fox keeps saying words like "catastrophic," "devastating," "ferocity," "enormous".... Yikes. And when is Shep going to get his rear end out of there?!