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

[spunkets]

CAT 4... This one is bigger than Camile, so it won't slow down very fast.

[rdl6989]

...the DUmmies were blaming the Louisiana National Guard for taking "all of the equipment" to Iraq.

Those people at DU shouldn't be let loose on the streets. I don't even lurk there anymore, too infuriating!

[onyx]

I've talked to him several times in person when he worked atop Jackie Gaughn's Union Plaza (AM-720). Art's show was political back then.

[Howlin]

Well, you'd think after telling people during Ivan to crawl in their attics... with an ax (to hack their way out if it didn't work)... you'd just think they would have thought this over.

I had forgotten that. OMG, this guy is a laugh a storm, isn't he?

[mplsconservative]

Bookmark. Dog got me up, not that I could sleep that well anyway.

Prayers for our fellow Americans.

[BurbankKarl]

They are talking about the toxic soup on C2C.

[JeffAtlanta]

Jeff, your credibility is zero, little one--be gone--poof!

Whatever. I should have learned from the Holloway threads that these live threads are just populated with the reactionary members of FR.

Thank God that there are actually threads that attract non-alarmist posters that don't have a unbearable need to blame someone.

Geesh, a category 4 storm is about to hit New Orleans and most of you can't get past the fact that the mayor wasn't a master orator.

Hell, many of the evacuation plans you people have suggested would just as likely moved the refugees into the path of the storm and actually more vulnerable than if they had stayed put. In this case New Orleans my be a death trap, but the storm could just as likely taken a different track if evacuation had been ordered 48 hours ago.

I'm out...

[ChefKeith]

Yeah but the coffee machine is controlled by the 'puter and has a low-level pot sensor with auto fill and brew.

Right?

[Flyer]

the left over buzz from FReeping the left into a ditch

Yeah, that's a buzz good for a week!

[kenth]

Yeah, was watching that. Orlando Salinas is the honorary Geraldo, evidently.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes this is going to be a tough show to win.

[WSGilcrest]

Here's a webcam near the corner of St. Charles and Napoleon.

http://www.nola.com/rpm/paradecam/paradecam.rpm

p.s. Clicking it didn't work for me, i had to paste it into realplayer.

[Howlin]

And whatever water it's pushing is already in front of it, right?

[AntiGuv]

Even with the warmest waters in front of it?

Hmm.. Well, I don't know what the temperature differences are, but if the water ahead is about 3-5 degrees warmer than the water behind then Katrina may very well strengthen despite the shallow depths. Basically, as I understand it, the water has to be warmer enough to make up for the decreased depth. It's the total heat that matters. Vertical shear matters too, but from what I've heard there isn't any to speak of anyhow.

[bored at work]

pretty nasty! This should give us a look see when it gets light.

http://www.nola.com/rivercam/index.ssf?video

[ChefKeith]

I wish I could have been there but I had to work;(

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Been raining particularly hard in NO...don't know what the totals are yet.

[warsaw44]

Howlin, I just don't see how some folks would be able to load up three days worth of food at the last minute. Some people might not have as much as 3 days worth of food at hand and going to the grocery store at such a late date would prove pointless.
I really wonder what kind of food people will bring: canned goods? pasta? Thousands of people using sterno cans to cook food?
I don't know but it just sounds like a situation which could deteriorate. Another FReeper mentioned there will be MREs for the people. Without that I think you would have serious problems.

[justa-hairyape]

Down to 155 MPH now. Cat 4.

Transferring energy to land now.

[Colorado Doug]

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

They are just for show

This is what we normally use

Yes, yes that's what I hear . . . wink, wink . . . How did I do Sidebar? Keeping secrets like this from an Admin Moderator isn't going to get me Zotted is it?