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

[newzjunkey]

Yes. I saw an interview with a state official and he gave this number and a web address out for the L.A. AG. Reports include price gouging for hotel rooms, refusing to take anything but cash for gas, gas price gouging, and so forth. He is promising prosecutions. The uninvestigated reports extend up to Lafayette.

[warsaw44]

I cant imagine how they survived. They would have had to had left during the worst of it. Amazing only 8 died. Where the heck does one go to hide during the worst of a hurricane?
Surprised Hollywood hasn't made a movie out of the legend.

[Howlin]

I'm thinking of "meeting" her train when it goes through NC.

[garandgal]

And if you have a plan in advance -- i.e., more than 12 hours before the storm hits, there are a million military bases around there, for starters.

Exactly. This was known to be heading to NO Friday night (even before, really); if they had immediately put out the call to cities even hours away to send buses...they would have! They could have been there early Saturday morning to start hauling people out.

As far as where would they go? Elementary schools, high schools, YMCA's, churches...the list is endlist. Churches, in particular would have gladly embraced the refugees...we wouldn't have had to worry about food, medical care, or anything with churches involved.

[BurbankKarl]

I wouldnt want my sleeping bag on the $8 VCR-DVD player aisle.

[Howlin]

And they are on the middle floors?

[PureSolace]

WWL went off the air at 1240am

So who are these people I'm watching on their "live stream"??? :) I see the LSU parade ground int he background, they must be in Baton Rouge.

[newzjunkey]

oh? I'm still watching them. They're at LSU with a cheesy green screened background.

[geopyg]

"..The WWL people were talking about a 3D map of Katrina or something "

Art Bell just heard from a listerner that WWL wnet off the air at 12:40 central time". Was his listener correct?

[Ronzo]

I am guessing letting that crowd in Sams Club would be a bad decision.

Better than the Super Wal-Mart...no gun counter/ammunition in the Sam's Club...at least not in the ones by me...

And just think...all those supplies right within easy reach. Would have to add a couple of port-a-potties out back though...

[JennysCool]

I've still got WWL.

[Howlin]

Night!

[txdoda]

And for an event that hasn't happened in 150 years.

And hopefully won't happen this day......;o)

[rdl6989]

This is gonna be an all nighter."

Agreed.

[flying Elvis]

Actually the TV series Quantum Leap did a show on it where Sam dropped in on the party animals.

[BurbankKarl]

I think he was talking the AM station.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

WWL is broadcasting from another location:

http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

They are running off the KHOU website, but it's only wwl...

[TheSpottedOwl]

There was a plan in place. Geesh. There have been plans in place for years now. FEMA made this a priority. There was poor leadership on the part of the mayor and his "men"

Well, that's what I thought. Hurricanes are a reality in those parts. The mayor should have been more decisive earlier on.

[janetjanet998]

all..its time to stop the normal back and forth chatter now and only post "hard news" i think? agree? damage reports/news will now by flying in from NOLA to AL..its hard to filter the reports in all of the "chatter"

[NautiNurse]

Jeff--are you always this contrary, or are you just working overtime tonight? When the mayor finally got around to suggesting people should take this storm seriously, he recommended taking the train out of town--to anywhere.