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

[ArmstedFragg]

Re: WWL

Normal Sunday night maintenance period, or storm trouble?

[Lib Buster]

I'm watching WWL now. They are broadcasting from Baton Rouge.

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

[Howlin]

Oh, that stuff............LOL.

[don-o]

I guess I have my answer. Seems that wwl radio is off the air

[NautiNurse]

Thread nanny job is already taken.

ahem--you talkin' about me, mister? ;o)

[spunkets]

"Windmill power = K*airdensity*rotorarea*velocity^3."

Your equation for wind power is P = K*m*v²/t

Your scaling of 1/vol * area allows you to write v³.

[Ingtar]

Odd jump on the satellite animation. She seemed to leap northward in the last frame. I am trying to see if it skipped one.

[adam_az]

"all..its time to stop the normal back and forth chatter now and only post "hard news" i think? agree?"

The easy news sells more ads. Ask CNNMSNBCBSABCFOX

[Diddle E. Squat]

You're drowning in desperation. Their basketball coliseum likely holds at least 10,000 just in the seats, plus more on the floor. Plenty more fit in the athletic dept gyms. More in the student rec facilities, which if it is like most universities has several indoor raquetball courts, gyms, a track, and weight room. That's easily 20-25,000 before starting in with university's numerous classrooms. And of course you forgot my suggestion of using local schools and govt bldgs, of which only a fraction are used for local evacuees. Nor did you remember that LSU could be used as a staging area to transport overflow to other areas of the state(using buses and trains in the 2nd 24 hours.)

[txdoda]

How about military bases?

Great, *if* this was already in an existing evac plan.

A little hard to pull off.....overnight, I'm sure.

[PhiKapMom]

ROFLOL! That was a good one!

[Citizen Soldier]

And he stayed on the bike and it stayed upright? Did he ride into a wind tunnel?

[don-o]

ahem--you talkin' about me, mister? ;o)

only in the best possible way. :)>>

[OKIEDOC]

LOL

[raygun]

[NautiNurse]

They relocated to BR--

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

[kinghorse]

Are these Fox News cams on fix going to stay up even when the atmosphere gets too thick for normal satellite? I was wondering when someone would get the technology perfected to be able to bear witness to the storm. You can get 5mp shots from the surface of Mars but when you want storm coverage it's zip until it's over.

/Praying for NO to pull through

[ajolympian2004]

Live coverage at 1150am WJBO from Baton Rouge http://www.wjbo.com/ - Click Listen Live link on the top left side of their page.

[bonfire]

Guess that's the point; they were supposed to HAVE a plan. We are just coming up with solutions to where to put people.