Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII

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. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin conceded that as many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn't have the means to leave and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport. At this hour, people are still filing into the Superdome after security screening for weapons and contraband. National Guard have brought in 360,000 MRE (meals ready to eat) to feed the estimated 30,000 storm refugees in the Superdome.

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 Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

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:

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

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 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

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

[STARWISE]

Nice to see you here, PC ... and adding my prayers for you. Hang in there, FRiend ;).

[nunya bidness]

Not good.

[Windsong]

Its sort of a "shoot first, ask questions later" kind of thing.

[Maigrey]

I bid everyone a good night, and continued prayers for all in Harm's way.

[DoughtyOne]

I have been saying for some time, that our refining capacity was woefully inadequte. Every time one refinery has problems, there's a severe spike in prices. For national security, that should not be the case.

A national security issue doesn't have to invole the military or an attack. The NO situation is a national security issue. A large region is in trouble, and transportation capabilities are integral to people's safety.

We need to get off the pot and start building up our fuel capacity.

[Prime Choice]

Thanks so much to all of you for your prayers. Will keep you updated after I go over the results with my oncologist later in September.

For now, my body is weary but my soul is rested.

[Skywarner]

" Maybe we should take a 1 minute prayer break and all pray together."

Amen!!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Are you sure it isn't that you want all the glory of doing the Monday HAT thread?

:-)

[adam_az]

better Sheriff Harry Lee photo

[newzjunkey]

WWL "I-10 is still a sea of headlights" 15mph speeds. This according to Texas officials.

[JennysCool]

As you can tell, I'm not a realtor.

But you ARE a realist!

[nopardons]

Nighty night...I think I'll take a break and just pray for everyone in the path of Katrina.

[RobbyS]

Oklahoma is Oklahoma. Even Democrats can be good. Boren(I think) for instance. A man qualified to be president but the national Democrats would never consider him .

[Born in a Rage]

Wow. I hope you're some kind of math or science teacher/professor. I read all of the 'math posts' and they gave my non-math mind a headache until I read your post...ahh, relief. Now, I kind of get what you have all been discussing :-)

[CindyDawg]

People do what they do for their own reasons. That's the way it should be. I believe at some point they will be on their own during the storm. That said, people in rescue jobs know the risks. When it comes to your immediate survival though who knows best? You or the government?

[John Jamieson]

AL or steel?

The stadium itself covers 13 acres. It reaches 27 stories at its peak, forming the world's largest steel construction room unobstructed by posts, filling more than 125 million cubic feet (38 million cubic meters). Some 20,000 tons (19,000 metric tons) of steel and 150,000 cubic yards (118,500 metric yards) of concrete were required for its construction.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Green Lightning....

Found this at http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct98/908234034.Es.r.html

Here's what Jaff Waldstreicher, Science and Operations Officer for the Binghamton, NY NWS Office told me:

"On rare occasion, the sky can appear to have a greenish tinge during a thunderstorm. That is, in most if not all cases, an excellent sign that the storm contains hail, and probably large hail. The greenish color is caused by light (either sunlight, or in some instances the light of a lightning flash), refacting off the large ice particles (chunks?) suspended in the storm. I saw this in 2 different storms on May 31st of this year, and received hail (in West Corners, NY) during both of them (1.5" in diameter from the first one, which produced the tornado further south - we have received numerous reports of 2-2.5" hail across Broome County, NY from this storm, and as large as 4" in diameter in the Deposit, NY area)."

[Sender]

Hey, you left out sandspurs and boiling hot asphalt.

[Admin Moderator]

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