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

[M. Espinola]

Here is the full disk version

[spunkets]

" If the Superdome was the last resort, where was the first resort? "

WI and IA.

[LibSnubber]

"Corruption ruled the day."

As it unfortunately still does. How on earth do you start to separate corruption from Louisiana politics? My guess is when enough people wake up and vote all crooks out of office. A "good guy" here or there is only scratching the surface.

[newzjunkey]

So can you tell if this event is worth covering or is it a lot of hype? I have no way to gauge. Do we just have to wait to see the aftermath? The media is getting on my nerves. Will this be a test to see if we've more or less 'beaten' hurricanes in terms of modern building and survivability?

[NautiNurse]

thank you very much for the updated map!

As far as the land masses...all that stuff on the map below New Orleans isn't really land--it's swamp.

[bored at work]

wow. quit the snap shot!!! awesome

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

[TypeZoNegative]

Wisconsin and Iowa? Haven't those people suffered enough?

[topher]

Bouy 42040

This buoy has stopped reporting wave height. Last report that it did have that was just under 40 foot waves.

This buoy is in deep water.

Weather Channel has storm surge figures, and I hope they are wrong. I have seen those levees -- but they are saying 20 to 25 feet for the storm surge.

Storm seems to be heading a little to the East of New Orleans. But it may not be far enough East.

[Pirogue Captain]

"I think the post said Nagin had supported the Pubbie candidate who ran for Governor agaist Blanco.
Agree with your accountability analysis."



I'm sure there was a post about Nagin supporting Bush (true or not). Maybe THAT poster was mistaken. Where on earth that post is now, I have no idea. Thanks for starting all of these threads. They are a great resource!

[mediawatcher44]

interesting link:http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html

[Howlin]

I heard somewhere earlier this week that Camille was sixty miles wide.

[Fred Nerks]

bookmark

[spunkets]

I meant to keep them out of the storm.

[TypeZoNegative]

Don't they usually get hurricane remnants though?

[Windcatcher]

Many thanks. That's one big beast. All of the activity in the N. Atlantic is especially telling.

Anyhow, nite all. I turn into a pumkpin at 4am EDT ;)

[eastforker]

The eye was only 15 from what I understand.

[Mo1]

The rain and lightening is coming down pretty hard on the webcam

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

I'm gonna head out now .. but I wanted to thank you for this thread and all your hard work in getting them up

Will be saying even more prayers for those still down in NO

[NautiNurse]

ummm...you used "modern building" in reference to New Orleans. That's a stretch.

Estimated 80% of buildings in the city will be uninhabitable.