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]

sort of. they went off in NO proper but moved their operation to Baton Rouge and are at LSU.

[PhiKapMom]

Have a hunch you would be stepped on a lot if you did!

[STARWISE]

Mark.

[don-o]

I've still got WWL.

Radio?

[JennysCool]

I think he was talking the AM station.

OK. I've still got the streaming TV feed.

[Termite_Commander]

The wind itself isn't what kills them, it's the metal sheets and such that fly around in the wind that does.

[pax_et_bonum]

I'll let you, then!

I should confess here that I talk about you in that good he's-a-Texan kinda way, too.

[Windcatcher]

A friend of mine works for PECO. When something like that happens, he's one of the guys they sometimes send out. It happens pretty often.

[PhiKapMom]

One reporter said they might have to leave the ballrooms to move upstairs several floors if the water gets too high. Most hotels ballrooms are on the ground or first floor that I have seen.

[newzjunkey]

Video stream still going here

[exhaustedmomma]

You're going to house 50,000 to 100,000 people at LSU by stacking them up in classrooms with chairs pushed in the corners?

Beats the heck out of sitting at a dead stop in a traffic jam on the Ponchatrain Bridge or interstate... with your kids. Or trying to walk (if you can walk)(if you know what's going down) to "the shelter"... (if you know where the shelter is.) If these elected morons can "canvass" neighborhoods for votes, bless bess, they can do it for the biggest storm known to hit the USA.

[Howlin]

It's not going to be just a couple of days, IMO.

[LibertyRocks]

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God Bless New Orleans and all of those in the path of this storm. May your loved ones be safe...

[JeffAtlanta]

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.

It takes weeks to move the military around and they do it for a living. By your logic, the entire US military should be able to move overseas in just a little more than a day.

We go through this exact same crap when it snows in Atlanta. It only happens every few years so the city doesn't have a fleet of snow plows to clear the snow. A few niave, busybodies complain afterward saying that the city "should have a fleet of trucks", but it's just not cost effective or reasonable.

Just curious because I don't know the answer, do you know of any city that has evacuation plans of moving 100,000 people OUT of the city?

[BurbankKarl]

Pretty sure he was talking about WWL AM.

The Eye is clearly defined on the NO Radar

[don-o]

Thread nanny job is already taken.

Uh, did you READ the posts to you requesting linkage to a ststement that you posted earlier?

[NautiNurse]

C'mon, Jeff--I want to know which hurricane you were in.

[Howlin]

I am frequently exposed to 100 MPH winds on my motorcycle.

Well, you must be dead, then, according to Jeff.

[Citizen Soldier]

My brother and his family just moved from Slidell back to Illinois last month. Boy, are they happy to be out of there!