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

[BurbankKarl]

Scanner broadcast to all companies from the superintendent of the New Orleans Fire Department, thanking the firefighters for their work, and telling them to stow their gear and head for their "refuge of last resort." This follows similar orders for EMS and NOPD.

[eternity]

Politics can take a rest. This is going to be bad for New Orleans and for us all who will take a hit one way or another.

[JeffAtlanta]

I don't think this is an accurate statement.

What do you disagree with? Every hurricane season, there are false alarms. If people evacuate, they are just as likely to steer themselves into the path of the storm. This happened in the Carolina's recently.

Those that do evacuate have a hard time getting back in to secure their property because the local government wants to make sure the area is "safe". There was a thread here on FR last year where a guy in Florida was tasered because he wanted to get to his house.

[exhaustedmomma]

the fate of the animals at the Audobon Zoo will be

There was a documentary type show on the History Channel (I think). The curators and zoo keepers help bunker in the especially vulnerable animals. The zoo on the show was the one in southern Florida during Andrew or Ivan... I can't remember. It was amazing how the animals had instincts to survive.

[Howlin]

with 80,000+ of my dearest friends

ROFLMAO........that just struck me as SO F U N N Y!

[don-o]

I went to the web site and do not see a link for wwl radio

[PAR35]

Only problem: finding 100 passenger cars.

Re-check your math. 100 cars will hold less than 10% of the 100,000 people. No way you are going to get 1000 folks in a rail car. Try 1000 rail cars and 50 or 100 locomotives. And as I asked someone else in another post - where are you going to take them?

[spunkets]

The green glow is excited oxygen losing a green photon when it gets unexcited. Ozone production. Hailstorms have lots of cycling of the hail up and down before it drops out. That involves lots of friciton and the generation of a lot of electricity.

[Howlin]

It's not.

[Mo1]

*L* .. yes, swarm sound fimilar

Did I hear correctly on FNC .. that EMS was pulled off the streets and told to seek shelter?

[kenth]

That's the point. Could they have bussed everyone out? Not likely, but they could have tried. They did not even try.

[Chena]

Little chair? I thought it was kindling. "Ooooops." Standing is good for you.

Kindling? Gee whiz, can't J.R. afford a furnace for you Mods? I can just see you, typing with one hand and putting another log on the fire with the other. Anyhow, fine, I'll stand (yes, facing the corner), but my hat will keep falling off.

[JeffAtlanta]

You obviously don't know what you're talking about; the people left in the center of New Orleans are the poorest, least educated people. They don't even have cars to leave with.

As already discussed, New Orleans, nor any other major city has the means to evacuate 100,000 people 100 miles away in 18 hours in an EMERGENCY situation.

Look, the guy may have been slow in ordering the evacuation but that is just a moot point.

[JennysCool]

Sounds like this has officially been handed over to Higher Authority.

[Sidebar Moderator]

"I didn't think you folks needed no stinking badges."

It seemed to get your attention. Mine has a mini digicam and GPS uplink. But please don't tell anyone, especially the Admin Moderator. The Admin Moderator will want one too.

[txdoda]

And the even bigger problem - where are you going to move them to?

Same thing I've been thinking.....reports are, rooms full into Ark., Tyler, TX.....& traffic jams still heading for Houston.

NO would have to keep 1000's of buses on hand to attempt to make these one-way evacuations.

[BurbankKarl]

Outages reports in N.O.

reporter saying crews on the way....YEAH RIGHT!

[raygun]

(Apalachicola) KAAF 290556Z AUTO 13016G25KT 10SM CLR 29/24 A2973 RMK AO2 PK WND 13027/0526 SLP069 60018 T02890244 10300 20267 58010 TSNO

(Pensacola) KPNS 290553Z AUTO 08011G19KT 6SM -RA BR SCT009 BKN015 OVC023 26/24 A2963 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT NW RAB15 SLP034 P0025 60079 T02560244 10300 20250 403280250 58025

(Mobile) KMOB 290556Z AUTO 07018G24KT 10SM -RA SCT017 SCT032 BKN043 25/23 A2960 RMK AO2 PK WND 07031/0504 RAB01 SLP019 P0002 60042 T02500228 10267 20250 403280244 56019 TSNO

(Sidell) KASD 290603Z AUTO 04019G26KT 4SM RA BR BKN001 BKN016 OVC032 25/23 A2947 RMK AO2 PK WND 02026/0557 P0004

(New Orleans Intl) missing

(New Oleans/Lake - w/ equipment maintenance indicator) KNEW 290600Z AUTO 04039G49KT 3/4SM +RA BR FEW015 OVC022 26/24 A2938 RMK AO2 PK WND 03049/0555 P0010 RVRNO $

(Galliano - Larose) KL49 290600Z AUTO 01034G49KT 26/25 A2921 RMK AO2 P0002 PWINO

[Tall_Texan]

FoxNews just reported 25,000 people inside the SuperDome.

SuperDome PA Announcer: "Tonight, you're all invited to a game of 'Survivor: New Orleans' but only the Almighty can vote you off the island."

[Howlin]

Get a life loser

Don't bring that crap to this thread.