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

[RobbyS]

New Orleans is obviously not in a good spot, like on the side of an active volcano. Take a look sometime. It is as exposed as Galveston was in 1900. I am reminded of Venice, which is, sadly, sinking into the sea.

[CindyDawg]

I don't know about him but I'm tired. I'm no storm watcher though. I'm an internet storm chaser:') Seriously, I'm praying for these people. Hopefully this storm will drop like they often do.

[Howlin]

Wow.......things are picking up.

[eastforker]

Howdy back!

[flying Elvis]

"Didn't seem to be much of a plan to move out the helpless. I saw an interview with three girls who were helping out at a military home -- took it was for military with medical problems -- one of the girls Mom's was in there. They were not being evacuated. A lot of people with young children with no transportation not evacuated. Visitors to the city -- not evacuated.

That was on the Mississippi coast and if they want to leave, the roads are clear. Jim Cantore (a genuinely nice human being) of the Weather Channel is staying in the same building with them.

[rdl6989]

Pressure Tendency (PTDY): -0.11 in ( Falling Rapidly ) at buoy 42007.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42007

[onyx]

Get a load of this!

A Weakened Katrina Due To Hit Canada As Early As Wednesday, Forecasters

Canadian Press ^ | August 29, 2005

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472613/posts

[Cboldt]

cboldt: Agreed, once started, the power (force times distance)

You are confusing power and work. Work is force times distance ... Power is the rate of work

Oops - you are dead on. Power is force times distance per unit of time. But still my "force of my half-ton ass on the couch provides -no- power until the couch is broken" is true.

[NautiNurse]

Beautifully spoken.

A great start would be donating blood tomorrow.

[JeffAtlanta]

This should have been the type of plan in place.

Posted by Par35

And the even bigger problem - where are you going to move them to? Anyplace within 150 miles is likely going to need its own shelters for local needs before this is over. (And the nearest non- coastal cities within easy range (Jackson and Baton Rouge) are both under 250,000 population. No way either of them could handle another 50,000 folks - both are packed with folks that got themselves that far. The nearest big cities are Houston, Dallas, Memphis and Birmingham.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Sorry. I saw the press conference. He was fumbling and bumbling. If loss of life is serious, blood will be on his hands.----

"Witch! Witch! 'e's a witch!"

[silentknight]

101 gust near the southeast shore of Louisiana.

[spunkets]

" The energy of that mass of air being moved is 1/2mv"

The square got lost. Should read:

The energy of that mass of air being moved is 1/2mv²

[goodnesswins]

Prayers for all in the area.....we're thinking and praying for you...

[Cboldt]

Teaching is a gift, for sure. Thank you very much for the kind compliments.

[DoughtyOne]

FoxNews just reported 25,000 people inside the SuperDome.

[Sidebar Moderator]

"It's ok, I'll let it slide"

Thank you. That is very kind of you. You are the best. In fact, you are one of my favorites.

[Diddle E. Squat]

You clearly don't get it. No other location is located in a bowl 8' below sea level. Completely different situation from evacuations in other parts of the country. The storm surge is where massive death occurs, and this is the only place in the US where such Bangladesh-type deaths could occur on a massive scale. There is a good chance that by this time tomorrow nights we will have had more deaths than any disaster in US history. A completely preventable WTC, predicted for decades, yet the city and state ended up being far too unprepared.

[PhiKapMom]

I attend OU football games with 80,000+ of my dearest friends and they always are announcing which exits to use in case of an emergency. They have a contingency in place for everything. Should have been one for a city that sits on the Gulf that is under sea level if you ask me.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

Thanks; I see now it's the drag factor that is key.

I had not looked at it that way, but I did some research and came up with this...

New Orleans Own...

DRAG STAR/MODEL EXTRAORDINAIRE!